Preparing for Weltpolitik: German Sea Power Before the Tirpitz EraA comprehensive operational history, an institutional history, and a political history, the book chronicles the fluctuating fortunes of Germany's navy. It covers its involvement in the German-Danish wars of 1848-1849, Otto von Bismarck's wars for German unification in 1864, 1866, and 1870, the claiming of the German colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific after 1884, and various instances of gunboat diplomacy. |
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Revolution and War | 19 |
A Peaceful Interlude | 46 |
The Era of German Unification | 71 |
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