1st Edition

Architects of Continental Seapower Comparing Tirpitz and Gorshkov

By Jeremy Stocker Copyright 2021
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they thought and wrote about seapower, the fleets they created and the strategic consequences of what they did. More broadly, it draws on the respective histories of the post-1897 Imperial German Navy... Read more

1 Introduction

Part One - Careers

2 Alfred von Tirpitz

3 Sergei Gorshkov

Part Two - Writings

4 Tirpitz – his writings

5 Gorshkov - his writings

Part Three - Fleets

6 The Imperial German Navy

7 The Soviet Navy

Part Four – Consequences

8 Consequences and Assessment - Tirpitz

9 Consequences and Assessment – Gorshkov

Part Five - Conclusions

10 The continental experience with Seapower

Biography

Jeremy Stocker is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute in London, and an independent defence analyst and naval historian. This is his second book.