Le "Goeben" et le "Breslau" L'Echappee du Goeben et du Breslau les operations navales des dardanelles le combat d'imbros traduit et presented par R. Jouan Capitaine de Corvette [The "Goeben" and the "Breslau" The escape of the Goeben and the Breslau naval operations of the Dardanelles the battle of Imbros Translated and presented by Corvette Captain R. Jouan] ; La guerre Navale 1914-1918 d'Apres le Service Historique de la Marine Allemande [The Naval War 1914-1918 After the Historical Service of the German Navy]
Paris: Payot, 1930. primier tirage [First printing stated]. Wraps. 174, [1] pages. This is part of the series Collection de memoires, etudes et documents pour servie a l'Historie de la Guerre Mondiale [Collection of memories, studies and documents to serve the History of the World War]. Avec 8 croquis [With 8 sketches] Includes 2 folding maps. Front and back covers separated. Part of spine gone. Some page discoloration. Condition between As is and Poor. SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben. Several months after her commissioning in 1912, Goeben, with the light cruiser Breslau, formed the German Mediterranean Division and patrolled there during the Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914, Goeben and Breslau bombarded French positions in North Africa and then evaded British naval forces in the Mediterranean and reached Constantinople. . By bombarding Russian facilities in the Black Sea, she brought Turkey into World War I on the German side. The ship operated primarily against Russian forces in the Black Sea during the war, including several inconclusive engagements with Russian battleships. She made a sortie into the Aegean in January 1918 that resulted in the Battle of Imbros, where Yavuz sank a pair of British monitors and was badly damaged by mines. The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau was a naval action that occurred in the Mediterranean Sea at the outbreak of the First World War when elements of the British Mediterranean Fleet attempted to intercept the German Mittelmeerdivision consisting of the battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau. The German ships evaded the British fleet and passed through the Dardanelles to reach Constantinople, where they were eventually handed over to the Ottoman Empire. Renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midili, the former Goeben and Breslau were ordered by their German commander to attack Russian positions, in doing so bringing the Ottoman Empire into the war on the side of the Central Powers. Though a bloodless "battle," the failure of the British pursuit had enormous political and military ramifications. In the short term it effectively ended the careers of the two British Admirals who had been in charge of the pursuit. Writing several years later, Winston Churchill—who had been First Lord of the Admiralty—expressed the opinion that by forcing Turkey into the war the Goeben had brought "more slaughter, more misery, and more ruin than has ever before been borne within the compass of a ship. Condition: Poor.
Keywords: SMS Goeben, Moltke-class Battlecruisers, Imperial German Navy, First World War, German Mediterranean Division, Battle of Imbros, SMS Breslau, Light Cruiser, Ottoman Empire, Naval Operations
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