Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class: Warships of the Kriegsmarine

by Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke

A concise, authoritative, heavily illustrated summary of this class of German WWII-era warships, covering their design histories and careers.   The Deutschland class included three ships of a design so revolutionary that it defied conventional categories. Deutschland (later renamed Lützow), Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee were simply termed Panzerschiffe (armored ships) by the Germans, but they were known to their opponents by the far more evocative term Pocket Battleships.   Part of a six-volume series on the German Navy’s WWII-era warships written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke, this book contains an account of the development of the Deutschland 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.

494 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 10, 2014

Reviews

[Mike Grady · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great resource material on the Deutschland class heavy cruisers of World War II. The author gives a detailed description of the development of the class and then provides a detailed history for each ship with photos.