Cruisers - Germany: Illustrated History Books & Guides

Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class (Warships of the Kriegsmarine)

Covers the Admiral Hipper class, among the largest heavy cruisers to serve in World War II. Intended to be a class of five, they enjoyed contrasting fortunes: Seydlitz and Lützow were never completed; Blücher was the first major German warship sunk in action; Admiral Hipper became one of the most successful commerce raiders of the war; while the Prinz Eugen survived to be expended as a target in one of the first American nuclear tests in 1946.

This book belongs to a series of six volumes "Warships of the Kriegsmarine", written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs.

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Author:	Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke
Details:	208 pages, 9.8 x 9.8 in (25 x 25 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	362 photos, 50 drawings, maps
Language:	English
Publisher:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2014)
ISBN:	9781848321953

Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers (Ship Craft)

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans.
The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and websites.

The subject of this volume is the largest and most sophisticated German cruiser class of WW2. The five ships suffered very different fates. Blucher was sunk during the invasion of Norway in 1940, whereas Admiral Hipper fought right through the war. The most famous, Prinz Eugen, escaped when Bismarck was sunk and survived to be expended in a postwar Atomic bomb test. Seydlitz was intended to be converted to an aircraft carrier, but never finished, while Lutzow was sold to Russia and sunk by her erstwhile owners.

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Author:	Steve Backer
Details:	64 pages, 11.8 x 8.1 x 0.24 in (30 x 20.5 x 0.6 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	130 b&w, illustrations in color
Language:	English
Publisher:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2010)
Series:	ShipCraft (16)
ISBN:	9781848320628

German Heavy Cruiser 1939-45 - Admiral Hipper class (Osprey)

The development of this excellent and successful class of warship only became possible after the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935 eased restrictions on the types of ship Germany could build; even then only five of the class were permitted: the Admiral Hipper, the Blücher, the Prinz Eugen, the Seydlitz and the Lützow.
These Cruisers were designed for Atlantic operations and had eight 8 inch guns, 12 10.5 cm heavy anti-aircraft guns and 17 smaller calibre anti aircraft guns as well as twelve torpedo tubes and their own compliment of up to six aircraft.

This title covers the design, development and operational history of the Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper class.

Contents: Introduction - Design and Development - Operational History - The Variants - Further Reading - Colour plate commentary - Index.

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Author:	Gordon Williamson
Details:	48 pages, 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.16 in (24.5 x 18.5 x 0.4 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	photos and drawings (in b&w and color)
Language:	English
Publisher:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2003)
Series:	New Vanguard (81)
ISBN:	9781841765020

German Light Cruisers 1939-45 (Osprey)

The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world. This meant that although the Kriegsmarine never felt capable of encountering the might of the British Navy in a fleet action, her ships were individually more than a match for the outdated vessels of the Royal Navy.
Nowhere was this more the case than in Germany's fleet of light cruisers. There were only six vessels in this fleet: the Emden, Leipzig, Köln, Königsberg, Karlsruhe and Nurnberg.

This book describes their design, development and varied operational history throughout the course of the Second World War.

Contents: Introduction - Design and Development - Operational History - The Variants - Further Reading - Colour plate commentary - Index.

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Author:	Gordon Williamson
Details:	48 pages, 9 x 7.1 x 0.16 in (24 x 18 x 0.4 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	photos and drawings (in b&w and color)
Language:	English
Publisher:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2003)
Series:	New Vanguard (84)
ISBN:	9781841765037

German Light Cruisers of World War II (Warships of the Kriegsmarine)

Devoted to the six light cruisers from Emden to Nürnberg that were built between the wars. They were primarily intended for commerce-raiding, but the war gave them few opportunities for such employment, although they did provide useful support for key naval operations in the Baltic and North Sea. Two were lost in the 1940 Norway campaign, but the remainder survived for most of the conflict.

This book belongs to a series of six volumes "Warships of the Kriegsmarine", written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs.

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Author:	Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke
Details:	224 pages, 9.8 x 9.8 in (25 x 25 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	320 photos, 50 drawings and maps
Language:	English
Publisher:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2014)
ISBN:	9781848321946

The Kaiser's Cruisers 1871-1918

The book covers the full range of cruising vessels operated or ordered by the Imperial German Navy between 1871 and 1918, excluding the large cruisers, previously covered by the author's companion volume The Kaiser's Battlefleet. These include corvettes, avisos, sloops, torpedo cruisers, III- and IV-class cruisers and small cruisers, and are described and arranged in a chronological narrative.
The book includes both design and operational histories, the latter continuing down to the end of ships' service after the fall of Imperial Germany, and it is accompanied by an extensive selection of many rare photographs.
The ships' technical details are tabulated in the second half of the book which also includes sketches of ships' internal layouts and armour and changes in appearance over time.

The authors have made extensive use of archival material, particularly relating to the political and technical background to design and procurement, and present a developmental history of this ship class which is unique in the English language. It will have huge appeal to all those with an interest in the German navy and to those who have been waiting avidly for the sequel to The Kaiser's Battlefleet.

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Author:	Aidan Dodson, Dirk Nottelmann
Details:	256 pages, 11.2 x 9.1 x 1.02 in (28.5 x 23 x 2.6 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	175 photos, 50 drawings
Language:	English
Publisher:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2021)
ISBN:	9781526765765

Prinz Eugen - Die Geschichte des legendären deutschen Kreuzers

The "Prinz Eugen" was one of the three heavy cruisers of the German Navy and the only German battleship to survive the Second World War. The "Eugen" sank in the summer of 1946 during the American atomic bomb tests and is located near the Kwajalein Atoll.

Pages of the book "Prinz Eugen - Die Geschichte des legendären deutschen Kreuzers"

Ingo Bauernfeind describes the development, history, technology and operations of the "Eugen" in this monograph; but above all he also devotes himself to the fate of the ship after 1945.
Current images of the wreck in its current state, information, findings and evaluations in connection with the nuclear weapons tests go far beyond the usual historiography.

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Author:	Ingo Bauernfeind
Details:	208 pages, 10.4 x 9.1 in (26.5 x 23 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	191 b&w and 131 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2016)
ISBN:	9783613039315