When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the British Admiralty (rightly) believed that Germany's naval planners intended to arm their country's fast merchant vessels in wartime and send them out to attack British trade in the manner of the privateers of old. This threat to British seaborne commerce was so serious that the leadership of the Royal Navy spent twelve years trying to work out how best to counter it. Ever more elaborate measures were devised to this end
Matthew S. Seligmann Bücher




Well illustrated account of what it was like to live under the Nazi regime
Naval intelligence from Germany
- 574 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
Examines and illustrates the work of the last four officers to hold the post of naval attache in Berlin before the cataclysm of 1914, Captains Dumas, Heath, Watson and Henderson. This volume illustrates a fundamental dimension of the Anglo-German naval race before the First World War: the role of the navy's 'man on the spot' in Berlin.
Ve stínu hákového kříže : Život v Německu za nacismu 1933-1945
- 223 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
Život v Německu za nacismu v letech 1933 - 1945.