Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class: Warships of the Kriegsmarine

A concise, authoritative, heavily illustrated summary of this class of German WWII-era warships, covering their design histories and careers.

The Deutschland class included three ships of a design so revolutionary that it defied conventional categories. Deutschland (later renamed Lützow), Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee were simply termed Panzerschiffe (armored ships) by the Germans, but they were known to their opponents by the far more evocative term Pocket Battleships.

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