• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Goeben & the Breslau: the Imperial German Navy in the Mediterranean, 1914-The Flight of the Goeben and Breslau

The Goeben & the Breslau: the Imperial German Navy in the Mediterranean, 1914-The Flight of the Goeben and Breslau

Hardcover

Naval HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 1782828761
ISBN13: 9781782828761
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Published: Jan 13 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The unsuccessful pursuit of two German Imperial navy warships

The Goeben-Breslau Incident was a naval action which took place in 1914 in the Mediterranean at the outbreak of the First World War. Ships of the Royal Navy Mediterranean fleet attempted to intercept the German battle cruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau. The pursuit raced eastwards across the 'middle sea' until the German warships passed the Dardanelles to safely reach Constantinople (Istanbul) in Ottoman Turkey, at which point they were handed over to the Turkish Government and renamed Yuvaz Sultan Selim and Midili. The ships subsequently engaged Russian military positions bringing Turkey into the war as a German ally. The Goeben-Breslau affair was believed to have far reaching consequences for the allied cause and the failure of the allied naval commanders engaged effectively ended their careers. This Leonaur edition gathers together information on this little-known naval action from several sources and the text is supported by maps and photographs which were not included in the original publications.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Naval History