The Historian, June 22nd, 1999
Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power before the Tirpitz Era. By Lawrence Sondhaus. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Pp. x, 326. $39.95.)
In 1897, Rear Admiral Alfred Tirpitz, newly appointed by Emperor William II as head of the Imperial Naval Office, began to create the mighty High Seas Fleet, which would become the second largest in the world by 1914. Many historians have chronicled the German Navy's history from 1897 onwards. The earlier period is much less known than it deserves to be. In this volume, Lawrence Sondhaus, notable for his work on the Austro-Hungarian Navy, se...
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