Angus Konstam
Autor(a) de The History of Pirates
About the Author
Originally from the Orkney Islands, Angus Konstam was the curator of arms and armor at the Tower of London and is currently the chief curator of the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, FL, setting up major exhibitions throughout the eastern seaboard of North America. He is the author of mostrar mais Historical Atlas of Exploration for Facts On File/Checkmark Books and lives in Key West. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Uncredited image from author's website.
Séries
Obras por Angus Konstam
The World Atlas of Pirates: Treasures and Treachery on the Seven Seas--in Maps, Tall Tales, and Pictures (2009) 37 exemplares
The Battle of North Cape - The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst 1943 - Campaign Chronicles (2009) 29 exemplares
Duel of the Ironclads: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads 1862 (General Military) (2003) 21 exemplares
Sink the Tirpitz 1942–44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship (Air Campaign) (2018) 18 exemplares
European Ironclads 1860–75: The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race (New Vanguard) (2019) 15 exemplares
Tirpitz in Norway: X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, Operation Source 1943 (2019) 12 exemplares
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship (Air Campaign) (2021) 12 exemplares
Warships in the Baltic Campaign 1918–20: The Royal Navy takes on the Bolsheviks (New Vanguard) (2022) 12 exemplares
Pirates of the seven seas : treasure and treachery on the high seas : in maps, pictures and yarns (2010) 11 exemplares
British/Commonwealth Cruiser vs Italian Cruiser: The Mediterranean 1940–43 (Duel) (2022) 11 exemplares
British Battleships 1890–1905: Victoria's steel battlefleet and the road to Dreadnought (New Vanguard) (2021) 10 exemplares
Big Guns in the Atlantic: Germany’s battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939–41 (2021) 9 exemplares
Viking Warrior Operations Manual: The life, equipment, weapons and fighting tactics of the Vikings (Haynes Manuals) (2018) 7 exemplares
There Was a Soldier: First-hand Accounts of the Scottish Soldier at War from 1707 to the Present Day (2009) 6 exemplares
German High Seas Fleet 1914–18: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy (Fleet, 2) (2023) 5 exemplares
On to Victory: Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown 1781 (The History Channel, American History Archives) (2007) 4 exemplares
La armada invencible / The Spanish Armada: El fracasado plan español contra Inglaterra en 1588 / The Spanish Failed… (2011) 2 exemplares
Royal Navy Home Fleet 1939–41: The last line of defence at Scapa Flow (Fleet, 5) (2024) 2 exemplares
The Pirate World 1 exemplar
Berlin 1 exemplar
Borneo 1945: The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific (Campaign, 406) (2024) 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1960-02-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Locais de residência
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Ocupações
- historian
naval officer
underwater archaeologist
museum curator
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 173
- Membros
- 4,935
- Popularidade
- #5,091
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 36
- ISBN
- 352
- Línguas
- 13
As for the fight itself, the short version is radar - don't leave home without it. In a fight fought mostly in darkness in a howling gale, the gunnery of the "Scharnhorst" was severely limited due to electronic inferiority, though she wound up dying very hard; Konstam tersely describes the action as an "execution." This is particularly since only 36 men survived; Admiral Erich Bey and the other 2000-odd crewmen going to the deep.
The thought that comes to mind is that this action is a last reflection of the institutional cultures the British and German naval forces came out of the Great War with. The British being fixated on aggressive action when the opportunity presented itself, a result of the botched hunt for the "Goeben" and the disappointment of Jutland. The Germans trying to maintain a fleet in being, while at the same time keeping themselves relevant, and living down the mutiny of the surface fleet in 1918. From this battle on, the British are looking for ways to make themselves useful to an American naval hierarchy who really doesn't want them, and the German naval command is trying to salvage a useful submarine force, while offering assistance to the German war effort in the Baltic.… (mais)