Download or read book War Mutiny and Revolution in the German Navy written by Richard Stumpf and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Mutiny and Revolution in the German Navy written by Richard Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Mutiny and Revolution in the German Navy written by Richard Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Mutiny and Revolution in the German Navy Ed by Horn written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Naval Mutinies of World War I written by Daniel Horn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mutiny on the High Seas written by Daniel Horn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet written by Nicholas C. Jellicoe and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Much fresh material . . . an excellent historical narrative of the events leading up to the Great Scuttle, the terrible day itself and its aftermath.” —Warships: International Fleet Review On June 21, 1919, the ships of the German High Seas Fleet—interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice—began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed terms, the fleet dramatically scuttled itself, in a well-planned operation that consigned nearly half a million tons, and 54 of 72 ships, to the bottom of the sheltered anchorage in a gesture of Wagnerian proportions. This much is well-known, but more than a century after the “Grand Scuttle” many questions remain. Was von Reuter, the fleet’s commander, acting under orders or was it his own initiative? Why was June 21 chosen? Did the British connive in or even encourage the action? Could more have been done to save the ships? Was it legally justified? And what were the international ramifications? This new book analyzes all these issues, beginning with the fleet mutiny in the last months of the war that precipitated a social revolution in Germany and the eventual collapse of the will to fight. The Armistice terms imposed the humiliation of virtual surrender on the High Seas Fleet, and the conditions under which it was interned are described in detail. Meanwhile the victorious Allies wrangled over the fate of the ships, an issue that threatened the whole peace process. Using much new material from German sources and a host of eyewitness testimonies, the circumstances of the scuttling itself are meticulously reconstructed, while the aftermath for all parties is clearly laid out. The story concludes with “the biggest salvage operation in history” and a chapter on the significance of the scuttling to the postwar balance of naval power. This is an important reassessment of the last great action of the First World War.
Download or read book The Wilhelmshaven Revolt written by Icarus and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Naval Mutinies of World War I written by Daniel Horn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collapse of Power written by David Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mutiny in the German Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Imperial Splendour to Internment written by Nicolas Wolz and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict.The impact of this impotence had a far-reaching effect upon the service. Germany, indeed most of Europe, was in the grips of a spirit of militant nationalistic fervour, and the inactivity of the great Imperial Navy caused deep frustration, particularly among the naval officers. Not only were they unable to see themselves as heroes, they were also ridiculed on the home front and felt profoundly humiliated. With the exception of the one sea battle at Jutland, their ships saw little or no action at sea and morale slowly collapsed to a point where, at the end of the war, the crews were in a state of mutiny. The seemingly ludicrous order that forced the fleet to go to sea against the British in 1918 was driven by a sense of humiliation, but coming at the war's end it triggered a revolution because the German sailors wanted no part in such madness. The internment at Scapa Flow was the ultimate shaming. This is a fascinating and perceptive analysis of a whole era, and it contributes substantially to our understanding of the war and its consequences consequences, sadly, that helped pave the way for the Third Reich.
Download or read book The Bloody Flag written by Niklas Frykman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global legacy of mutiny and revolution on the high seas. Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era’s constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day.
Download or read book The Wilhelmshaven Revolt written by Ernst Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Imperial Splendor to Internment written by Nicolas Wolz and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout World War I. The inactivity of the great Imperial Navy caused deep frustration, particularly among the naval officers. Not only were they unable to see themselves as heroes, they were also ridiculed on the home front and felt profoundly humiliated. With the exception of the one sea battle at Jutland, their ships saw little or no action at sea. Morale collapsed to a point where, at the end of the war, the crews were in a state of mutiny. The order that forced the fleet to go to sea against the British in 1918 was driven by a sense of humiliation, but because the German sailors wanted no part in such madness it triggered a revolution.
Download or read book The Wilhelmshaven Revolt written by Icarus and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailors Democracy written by John A. Nelzen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War I, why did Germany's surface ship sailors embrace and spread the cause of moderate revolution, rather than embrace either a radical, Bolshevik style of revolution or fight the revolution altogether? War weariness, in the absence either of a tightly knit and anti-revolutionary view forged by frequent military action experienced by frontline U-boat crews, or the particular code of honor of the naval leadership, prompted sailors to pursue this course. The wartime experience starting in 1914 proved crucial to shaping the responses of naval personnel to revolution from the start of the sailor uprising in October and November 1918 through the survival of the new republic against the communist Spartacus uprising of 1919 and counterrevolutionary Kapp Putsch of 1920. Generally speaking, the surface sailors, in contrast to U-boat crews or naval leaders in the officer corps or high command, sought a moderate space for soldiers, workers, and sailors to have a voice through councils that supported reformist, electoral politics in a post-Kaiser republic. The surface sailors navigated a middle ground between weak communist forces and counterrevolutionaries who saw moderate and communist revolutionaries as people cut from the same cloth who had to be stopped by any means necessary.
