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Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015018902372
World War I ; Naval operations by Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Author : Richard Compton-Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043293567
Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0883652072
Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317172215
In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain’s efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical neglect of the naval aspect of the Great War. As well as reassessing Britain’s war at sea between 1914 and 1918, underlining the oft neglected contribution of the blockade of the Central Powers to the ending of the war, the book also offers a case study in ideas about military planning for ’the next war’. Questions about how next wars are thought about, planned for and conceptualised, and then how reality actually influences that thinking, have long been - and remain - key concerns for governments and military strategists. The essays in this volume show what ’realities’ there are to think about and how significant or not the change from pre-war to war was. This is important not only for historians trying to understand events in the past, but also has lessons for contemporary strategic thinkers who are responsible for planning and preparing for possible future conflict. Britain’s pre-war naval planning provides a perfect example of just how complex and uncertain that process is. Building upon and advancing recent scholarship concerning the role of the navy in the First World War, this collection brings to full light the dominance of the maritime environment, for Britain, in that war and the lessons that has for historians and military planners.
Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317172208
In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain’s efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical neglect of the naval aspect of the Great War. As well as reassessing Britain’s war at sea between 1914 and 1918, underlining the oft neglected contribution of the blockade of the Central Powers to the ending of the war, the book also offers a case study in ideas about military planning for ’the next war’. Questions about how next wars are thought about, planned for and conceptualised, and then how reality actually influences that thinking, have long been - and remain - key concerns for governments and military strategists. The essays in this volume show what ’realities’ there are to think about and how significant or not the change from pre-war to war was. This is important not only for historians trying to understand events in the past, but also has lessons for contemporary strategic thinkers who are responsible for planning and preparing for possible future conflict. Britain’s pre-war naval planning provides a perfect example of just how complex and uncertain that process is. Building upon and advancing recent scholarship concerning the role of the navy in the First World War, this collection brings to full light the dominance of the maritime environment, for Britain, in that war and the lessons that has for historians and military planners.
Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036901
New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.
Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848849884
During WW1 the North Sea became the principal battleground for the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm IIs High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also includes other important operations such as mine-laying and sweeping, the Zeppelin Offensive, the bomber offensive against the UK and complete background operational information within the area.Engagements of special note include The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the attempted first German Bombardment of Yarmouth, the German bombardments of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool, together with the Scheers escape, and the Battle of Dogger Bank. Other actions include the Zeppelin raids, unrestricted U Boat Warfare, the Battle of Jutland and its consequences, the second Battle of Heligoland Bight, the climax and defeat of the German heavy bomber air offensive against the UK and in 1918 the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids, North Sea mine barriers and the mutiny of the High Seas Fleet.
Author : William Lionel Wyllie,M. F. Wren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015068418675
Author : Liam Nolan,John E. Nolan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781856356213
A study of the often overlooked role that Ireland played in assisting Britain in World War I.
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1035309565
Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330540766
Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of huge change – for the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. Julian Thompson blends insightful narrative with never-before-published stories to show what these men faced and overcame. Officers and men, from admirals down to the youngest sailors faced the same dangers, at sea in often terrible weather conditions, with the ever-present prospect of being blown to pieces, or choking to death trapped in a compartment or turret as they plunged to the bottom of the sea. In their own words they share their experiences, from from long patrols and pitched battles in the cold, rough water of the North Sea to the perils of warfare in the Dardanelles; from the cat-and-mouse search for Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee in the Pacific to the dangerous raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge. We see what it was like to spend weeks in the cramped, smelly submarines of the period, or to attack U-boats from unreliable airships.
Author : Vincent O'Hara,Leonard R Heinz
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682470190
Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more than a catalog of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explores why battles occurred; how the different navies fought; and how combat advanced doctrine and affected the development and application of technology. The result is a holistic overview of the war at sea as it affected all nations and all theaters of war. A work of this scope is unprecedented. Organized into seven chapters, the authors first introduce the technology, weapons, ships, and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914. The next five chapters explore each year of the war and are subdivided into sections corresponding to major geographic areas. This arrangement allows the massive sweep of action to be presented in a structured and easy to follow format that includes engagements fought by the Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Ottoman, and Russian Navies in the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas as well as the Atlantic, India, and Pacific Oceans. The role of surface combat in the Great War is analyzed and these actions are compared to major naval wars before and after. In addition to providing detailed descriptions of actions in their historical perspectives, O’Hara and Heinz advance several themes, including the notion that World War I was a war of navies as much as a war of armies. They explain that surface combat had a major impact on all aspects of the naval war and on the course of the war in general. Finally, Clash of Fleets illustrates that systems developed in peace do not always work as expected in war, that some are not used as anticipated, and that others became unexpectedly important. There is much for today’s naval professional to consider in the naval conflict that occurred a century ago.
Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Naval battles
ISBN : 0330491725
Based on testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. For the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. This work shows what these men faced and overcame.
Author : Lisle A. Rose
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273703
Honorable Mention, 2016 Lyman Awards, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I. When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately forced to engage in the utterly new realm of anti-submarine warfare waged on, below and above the seas by a variety of small ships and the new technology of airpower. The U.S. Navy substantially contributed to the safe trans-Atlantic passage of a two million man Army that decisively turned the tide of battle on the Western Front even as its battleship division helped the Royal Navy dominate the North Sea. Thoroughly professionalized, the Navy of 1917–18 laid the foundations for victory at sea twenty-five years later.
Author : Marcus Faulkner
Publisher : Seaforth
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 184832183X
In the vast literature of the First World War there has never been a naval atlas that depicts graphically the complexities of the war at sea, and puts in context the huge significance of the naval contribution to the defeat of Germany. With more than 125 beautifully designed maps and charts, the atlas sets out to visualise the great sea battles as well as the smaller operations, convoys, skirmishes and sinkings. As well as the well known set pieces such as the battles of Coronel, Heligoland, Dogger Bank and Jutland, the Dardenelles campaign, the North Sea and Channel operations, and the responses to merchant ship losses, the atlas looks at the many significant events at sea which impacted on the land war and which have had scant coverage in much of the naval literature of the era. The distant waters defence of trade routes, the impact of the United States navy in Europe, operations in the Baltic and northern Russia, and Japanese naval contributions in the Middle East are just some of the themes given a new and exciting presentation No other work has attempted such an ambitious coverage of the naval war in this period and it will become the definitive reference work for enthusiasts and historians as well as general readers fascinated by the naval war that extended across all the world's oceans and had such a significant impact on the outcome of the war.