Warship Pictorial 47 - German Battlecruisers 1910-1919

Great collection of black and white photos! The captions are reasonably informative. You can learn a lot about these ships from the photos and associated captions. Perhaps not surprisingly, there are many photos and discussions of the ships' turrets and heavy guns.In looking at several of the photos, it seems that the German battlecruisers had relatively low freeboards. When steaming at full speed, the bow waves almost came to the tops of the forecastles. I wonder how well these ships would have performed in the heavy seas In the North Atlantic.Page 71 contains a brief tabulation of dimensions, displacements, armament, armor thicknesses, machinery horsepower and speed, crew size, construction cost, commissioning dates, and fate (mostly scrapped after WW I).

Anybody interested in German warships of the First World War needs this book!

Great pictures of WWI German Battlecrusiers. As the author states, a supplement to Gary Staff's great work on them.!

I am a great friend of the Imperial German Navy and the large Cruisers belong to my favorite ships. Despite the fact that the photographs are more than 100 years old the pics are large and of a very good quality. ( e.g the Cruiser " von der Tann " at Spithead in 1911 ).The book offers a good overview of these German large Cruisers and I am glad I could get it

This booklet has many quality photos, many of which I had never seen before. If you are interested in SMS battlecruisers it is a must have.

These books are hard to keep up with, you don't want to miss any of these.

Outstanding collection of photos and descriptive text! I look forward to more of these publications.