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Tirpitz

Architect of the German High Seas Fleet

By: Michael Epkenhans

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Tirpitz

Architect of the German High Seas Fleet

By: Michael Epkenhans

Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for rapidly developing and enlarging the German Navy, especially the High Seas Fleet, from 1897 until the years immediately prior to the First World War. Epkenhans uses newly discovered documents to provide a fresh treatment of this important naval leader. In 1897, Tirpitz became the Secretary of State of the Imperial Navy Department. In four major building acts of 1898, 1900, 1908, and 1912, and, in working closely with Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tirpitz expanded the Imperial Navy from a small coastal force into a major blue-water navy. Great Britain, reacting with alarm to this challenge to its overseas trade and naval supremacy, accelerated the naval arms race by launching a revolutionary type of battleship, the Dreadnought, in 1906 and entering into strategic alliances with France and Russia. By the start of the First World War in 1914, the British Royal Navy still held a sizable advantage in capital ships over Germany, so that only one notable fleet action, Jutland in 1916, took place during the war. Tirpitz, who had become the German Navy commander with the outbreak of the war, thereafter became a staunch advocate of unrestricted submarine warfare. This policy did not differentiate between neutral and belligerent shipping and proved so controversial with the neutral United States that Germany was forced to retract it, albeit only temporarily. In the meantime, Tirpitz tendered his resignation to the Kaiser, who surprisingly accepted it. Tirpitz remained a minor figure thereafter, later serving the right-wing Fatherland Party as a deputy in the Reichstag.

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1612340725

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On the Eve of the Great War

Political concepts, conspiracies and theories

By: Arnold Suppan,Michael Epkenhans,Martin Bayer,Damijan Guštin

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On the Eve of the Great War

Political concepts, conspiracies and theories

By: Arnold Suppan,Michael Epkenhans,Martin Bayer,Damijan Guštin

The book »On the Eve of the Great War« represents various perspectives of Slovenian, Austrian and German historians on the happening at the time of the outbreak of World War I. The authors` studies are based on many years of literature studying and research of archive material. These published contributions are providing an insight into various spheres of pre-war and mid-war events and are, regarding few areas of research, leading to completely new conclusions. They will allow the readers to understand better geopolitical circumstances that led to the outbreak of World War I. In the book that was published during the time of many ceremonies, marking the 100th anniversary of fatal assassination in Sarajevo and the beginning of World War I, the authors emphasize the importance of the research of the fundamental factors that forced global superpowers into the mutual conflict. Foreign authors` contributions allow us to review historical facts from various standing points of national historiography as they present fundamental viewpoints of the historical development. This publication, released in English, due to all stated factors, presents an important piece of work for the research of World War I. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ V knjigi so predstavljena različna gledanja slovenskih, avstrijskih in nemških zgodovinarjev na dogajanje ob izbruhu prve svetovne vojne. Študije avtorjev temeljijo na dolgoletnem preučevanje literature in arhivskega gradiva. Objavljeni prispevki dajejo vpogled v različne sfere predvojnega in medvojnega dogajanja in na nekaterih področjih prinašajo povsem nova dognanja. Bralcu bodo omogočila boljše razumevanje geopolitičnih okoliščin, ki so pripeljale do izbruha prve svetovne vojne. V času obeležij stote obletnice usodnega atentata v Sarajevu in začetka prve svetovne vojne avtorji poudarjajo pomen raziskovanja temeljnih dejavnikov, ki so svetovne velesile potisnili v medsebojni konflikt. To jim omogoča presojanje zgodovinskih dejstev iz različnih zornih kotov nacionalnih zgodovinopisji.

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Založba ZRC

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9612547629

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Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

By: Michael Jonas

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Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

By: Michael Jonas

This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe's neutral small states in times of crisis and war. The book's overreaching rationale draws upon three underlying conceptual fields: neutrality and international law, hegemony and great power politics as well as diplomacy and policy-making of small states in the international arena. From a variety of angles, it examines the question of how neutrality was understood and perceived, negotiated and dealt with both among the Scandinavian states and the belligerent major powers, especially Britain, Germany and Russia. For a long time, the experience of neutral countries during the First World War was seen as marginal, and was overshadowed by the experiences of occupation and collaboration brought about by the Second World War. In this book, Jonas demonstrates how this perception has changed, with neutrality becoming an integral part of the multiple narratives of the First World War. It is an important contribution to the international history of the First World War, cultural-historically influenced approaches to diplomatic history and the growing area of neutrality studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350046361

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9781350046368

A World History of the Seas

From Harbour to Horizon

By: Michael North

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A World History of the Seas

From Harbour to Horizon

By: Michael North

Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350145459

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9781350145450

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

By: Michael Geheran

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Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

By: Michael Geheran

At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming "evacuations." Why this was so, and how Jewish veterans at least initially were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis, is the subject of Comrades Betrayed. Michael Geheran deftly illuminates how the same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstrate bravery in the front lines in World War I made it impossible for them to accept passively, let alone comprehend, persecution under Hitler. After all, they upheld the ideal of the German fighting man, embraced the fatherland, and cherished the bonds that had developed in military service. Through their diaries and private letters, as well as interviews with eyewitnesses and surviving family members and records from the police, Gestapo, and military, Michael Geheran presents a major challenge to the prevailing view that Jewish veterans were left isolated, neighborless, and having suffered a social death by 1938. Tracing the path from the trenches of the Great War to the extermination camps of the Third Reich, Geheran exposes a painful dichotomy: while many Jewish former combatants believed that Germany would never betray them, the Holocaust was nonetheless a horrific reality. In chronicling Jewish veterans' appeal to older, traditional notions of comradeship and national belonging, Comrades Betrayed forces reflection on how this group made use of scant opportunities to defy Nazi persecution and, for some, to evade becoming victims of the Final Solution.

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Cornell University Press

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1501751034

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9781501751035

Canaris

The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster

By: Michael Mueller

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Canaris

The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster

By: Michael Mueller

This biography of the Nazi intelligence chief who spied both for and against Hitler examines the life of one of WWII’s most intriguing figures. An early supporter of Adolph Hitler, Wilhelm Canaris became chief of German military intelligence before secretly turning against the Nazi regime at the start of World War II. Throughout his career, few who knew him ever understood his plans. Even today, historians find Wilhelm Canaris a man of mystery among Hitler’s top lieutenants. The great protector of German opposition to Hitler, Canaris was also the one who prepared the Third Reich’s major expansion plans. While he motivated those who were eager to bring down Hitler, he also hunted them as conspirators—one of the many contradictions he was forced to live with in order to stay in control of the Nazi spy network. This superbly researched biography follows Canaris's career from his first dabbling in the intelligence business during World War I through his time as head of the Abwehr to his execution in 1945 for his role in the July Plot. A highly readable account, it tells the story of an apparently old-fashioned naval officer, drawn into the web of the Nazi regime.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473894662

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9781473894662

Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies

Learning from the Belgian Experience

By: Michael F. Palo

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Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies

Learning from the Belgian Experience

By: Michael F. Palo

In this book, Michael F. Palo explains how a historical and theoretical examination of Belgian neutrality, 1839-1940, can help readers understand the behaviour of small/weak democracies in the international system.

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BRILL

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9004395857

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9789004395855

Operation Albion

The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands

By: Michael B. Barrett

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Operation Albion

The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands

By: Michael B. Barrett

In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a half-dozen zeppelins, and 80 aircraft, attacked the Baltic islands of Dago, Osel, and Moon at the head of the Gulf of Riga. It proved to be the most successful amphibious operation of World War I. The three islands fell, the Gulf was opened to German warships and was now a threat to Russian naval bases in the Gulf of Finland, and 20,000 Russians were captured. The invasion proved to be the last major operation in the East. Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.

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Indiana University Press

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0253003539

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9780253003539

Nazi Spymaster

The Life and Death of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris

By: Michael Mueller

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Nazi Spymaster

The Life and Death of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris

By: Michael Mueller

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was the head of the Abwehr?Hitler's intelligence service?from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Hitler, Canaris came to vigorously oppose his policies and practices and worked secretly throughout the war to overthrow the regime. Near the end of the war, secret documents were discovered that implicated Canaris and hinted at the extent of the activities conducted by Canaris's Abwehr against the Hitler regime, and in 1945 Canaris was executed as a national traitor. But Canaris left little in the way of personal documents, and to this day he remains a figure shrouded in mystery. Drawing on newly available archival materials, Mueller investigates the double life of this legendary and enigmatic figure in the first major biography of Canaris to be published in German.

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Skyhorse

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1510717773

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Tirpitz

Architect of the German High Seas Fleet

By: Michael Epkenhans

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Architect of the German High Seas Fleet

By: Michael Epkenhans

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1612340725

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9781612340722

The Naval Route to the Abyss

The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914

By: Frank Nägler,Dr Matthew S Seligmann,Prof Dr Michael Epkenhans

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The Naval Route to the Abyss

The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895-1914

By: Frank Nägler,Dr Matthew S Seligmann,Prof Dr Michael Epkenhans

The Anglo-German rivalry in battleship building at the beginning of the twentieth century has been blamed by many as a major cause of the First World War, yet ‘the Great Naval Race’ has not received the attention that its notoriety would merit. This volume facilitates an understanding of how the two parties interacted by providing a comprehensive survey of existing scholarship, as well as important primary sources from a range of archives. By offering German documents in their original text and in English translation, this book makes the German role in this conflict accessible to English speakers for the first time.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472440951

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Tirpitz

Tirpitz

On the Eve of the Great War

On the Eve of the Great War

Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War

A World History of the Seas

A World History of the Seas

Comrades Betrayed

Comrades Betrayed

Canaris

Canaris

Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies

Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies

Operation Albion

Operation Albion

Nazi Spymaster

Nazi Spymaster

Tirpitz

Tirpitz

The Naval Route to the Abyss

The Naval Route to the Abyss

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