From Imperial Splendor to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War - Hardcover

Wolz, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591141745 ISBN 13: 9781591141747

Verlag: U S NAVAL INST PR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This important work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout World War I. The inactivity of the great Imperial Navy caused deep frustration, particularly among the naval officers. Not only were they unable to see themselves as heroes, they were also ridiculed on the home front and felt profoundly humiliated. With the exception of the one sea battle at Jutland, their ships saw little or no action at sea. Morale collapsed to a point where, at the end of the war, the crews were in a state of mutiny. The order that forced the fleet to go to sea against the British in 1918 was driven by a sense of humiliation, but because the German sailors wanted no part in such madness it triggered a revolution.

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Nicholas Wolz was an editor on Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung. He now works for the German Central Bank and lives with his family in Frankfurt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: U S NAVAL INST PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1591141745
• ISBN 13: 9781591141747
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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