Dirk Nottelmann Author

Aidan Dodson is Hon Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996\. He has also maintained parallel research interests in naval history, and worked as a civil servant in defence procurement for 25 years, including project leader for the offshore patrol vessel HMS _Clyde_. He is the author of more than 300 articles and reviews, plus some twenty books, including _The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German capital ships 1871-1918_ ,_Before the Battlecruiser: the big cruiser in the world's navies 1865-1910_ and _Spoils of War: the fates of the ex-enemy fleets after the two World Wars_, with Serena Cant, all published by Seaforth. Dirk Nottelmann is a marine engineer by profession, presently working as a civil servant for the German flag-state administration (Deutsche Flagge), and has been working on the history of the Imperial Navy for more than 30 years. He was the last editor of the former _Hamburger Rundbrief_, and the author of more 150 articles and reviews, and three books: _Halbmond und Kaiseradler: Goeben und Breslau am Bosporus, 1914-1918_, with Bernd Langensiepen, _Die Brandenburg-Klasse: Hoehepunkt des deutschen Panzerschiffbaus_, and _Das Kanonenboot Iltis (ii) - seine Vorganger und __Nachfolger_, with Lothar Wischmeyer.