The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state aboard its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small but powerful "fleet in being" forced the Allies to maintain a blockade of the Otranto Straits. German... [click here for more]
Victors write history. German Admiral Reinhard Scheer knew this, and wrote his own anyway. In this memoir of World War One, he says, "We are victors and vanquished at one and the same time, and in depicting our success the difficult problem confronts us of not forgetting that our strength did not last out to the end."
Admiral Scheer took command of the German High Seas Fleet in... [click here for more]
A Matomaton military history reference book.
Contemporary biographical details and portraits of twenty-four Generals of the British Army produced during the First World War by Francis Dodd.
This PDF contains the full text of both volumes of Dodd's collection, Generals Of The British Army, including twenty-four high resolution images.
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A Matomaton military history reference book.
Contemporary biographical details and portraits of twenty-four Admirals of the British Navy produced during the First World War by Francis Dodd.
This PDF contains the full text of both volumes of Dodd's collection, Admirals Of The British Navy, including twenty-four high resolution images.
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This is a newspaper from the PBM/PBEM wargames campaign game SCRAMBLE FOR EMPIRE, presented here for your general amusement and delictation! Makes for a good read and a rich source of scenarios and background for a roleplaying game or wargame set in the heady days of Victorian Imperialism or for a VSF or Steampunk adventure!
More will follow chaps - ra, ra,ra! ... [click here for more]
This is a newspaper from the PBM/PBEM wargames campaign game SCRAMBLE FOR EMPIRE, presented here for your general amusement and delictation! Makes for a good read and a rich source of scenarios and background for a roleplaying game or wargame set in the heady days of Victorian Imperialism or for a VSF or Steampunk adventure!
More will follow chaps - ra, ra,ra! ... [click here for more]
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