Gary Staff is a former airline pilot but he has been fascinated with naval history, and specifically with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlischmarine) for decades. He has visited archives in Britain, Germany and elsewhere to study, and often translate for the first time, official documents relating to this subject. His previous books for Pen & Sword are The Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917; Battle on the Seven Seas and German Battlecruisers of World War One. He lives in Australia.
"German dreadnoughts battled a pair of Russian pre-dreadnoughts
and
sank one. The actions, part of the successful Operation Albion with
the German army, also enabled Finland to separate from Russia. The
author used firsthand German and Russian accounts
to enhance the narrative."-- "PowerShips"
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