The young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich ...
Outcome: German invasion of Denmark and Norway. Norway was a neutral country so any military presence there would have been a violation of that status. Nonetheless, Hitler's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder ...
The war at sea, which for seven months eclipsed the war on land, was obscured but by no means suspended by last week’s maelstrom in Belgium and France (see p. 23). Two major moves were made almost in ...
Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...