Description:
The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state aboard its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small but powerful "fleet in being" forced the Allies to maintain a blockade of the Otranto Straits. German and Austro-Hungarian U-boats ran riot in the Mediterranean even though the capital ships almost never left port.
Illustrated with thirty photographs and drawings, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed listing of the ships that made up the KuK Kriegsmarine, its operations, and the unique problems this unusual fleet faced, from contentious duelling parliaments to ships built by landlocked Hungary.
As well as the book itself, data files are included in Excel, OpenOffice and .csv formats. These can be imported into any spreadsheet or database program to give quick access to the specifications of the various classes.
Note that PDF, epub and mobi files are available. Download links for all files are included in the order details page, so if the file you want isn't downloaded automatically, go to the order details and you'll be able to download your preferred format from there.
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