Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class, Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke.

Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class, Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke.
 Looks at the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the first interwar German battleships to ignore most naval treaty restrictions, and the most active of the German battleships of the Second World War. An excellent history of these two ships that pulls no punches about the flaws in their designs.
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