A Fleet in Being: The Austro-Hungarian Navy of WWI

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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 abord 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 and Austro-Hungarian u-boats ran riot elsewhere in the Mediterranean even though the capital ships almost never left port.

Illustrated with thirty photographs and drawings, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed listing of the ships that made up the KuK Kriegsmarine, its operations, and the unique problems this unusual fleet faced, from contentious duelling parliaments to ships built by landlocked Hungary.

It is available from:

• Amazon
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• Google Books
• Wargame Vault
• Smashwords

If you prefer, you can buy it direct using PayPal (£2.49). E-pub, Mobi and PDF formats will be e-mailed to you as soon as payment clears. As well as the book itself, data files are included in Excel, OpenOffice and .csv formats. These can be imported into any spreadsheet or database program to give quick access to the specifications of the various classes.