Kaiser Wilhelm's Sea Wolves: German Submarine Warfare in World War I
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In August 1914, after the outbreak of the World War, under the heavy siege of the British Royal Navy's long-range blockade policy, the High Seas Fleet that Germany spent a lot of manpower and money to build was almost useless. In order to break the siege of the British, Germany used its newly-invented submarine as its main naval warfare weapon and launched a submarine trade war against the Allied Powers group headed by Britain, with the main goal of attacking maritime shipping lines. In February 1917, in order to completely defeat Britain, Germany implemented a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, launching unwarranted attacks on all Allied and neutral merchant ships, and planned to cut off British shipping channels within five months. However, under the combined effect of the British escort system and multiple anti-submarine measures, unrestricted submarine warfare ended in failure. In November 1918, the German submarine force, which once dominated the sea, was destroyed along with the Second German Reich. This book takes German submarine warfare throughout the world war as the main clue, combined with a series of anti-submarine measures carried out by the Allied Powers led by Britain, to comprehensively introduce the development and evolution of German submarine technology and tactics, as well as the policy origins and political influence of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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