Secret Projects of the Kriegsmarine

While it sounds like a video game, this is a look at some of the innovative designs dreamt up by the Kriegsmarine, which itself received less funding than the Heer and Luftwaffe. It offers plans for everything from battleships and aircraft carriers to submarines, hydrofoils and landing craft. To back this up you get schematics and a number of intriguing photos, especially of piloted torpedoes. The photos could be better quality, but it’s an interesting book all the same.

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• Greenhill Books

• ISBN 978-1-7843-8687-0

• 186 pages • Hardback • £20