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Title: Great book!
Review: I first read this book in the 1970's and read it to pieces. The second copy is on my bookshelf and I still enjoy reading a chapter here and there. The author starts with the sinking of the Imperial Fleet in 1919 and does a good and concise accounting of Germany's naval planning afterwards, especially after Raeder takes over. The battles fought during the war are well known and can be found in more detail in books specializing in those individual topics; however, if you only had one book then this one would be ideal. Has also some good pictures. My only beefs are minor: his calling the Scharnhorst class battleships as battlecruisers, when in fact they were the opposite (heavy armour but weak guns for their size), and then the mislabelling of the pictures of the Scheer and Gneisenau. A five star book that good only be surpassed if some more details good be added, such as more info on how the surface units met their ends.
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