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(0)Geoffrey Bennett
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From a British Royal Navy officer, a detailed history of World War I’s principal battles at sea.
With the call to action stations in August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson . . .
This classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements—battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea—with...
With the call to action stations in August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson . . .
This classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements—battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea—with...
Author
Series
Pen and Sword military classics volume no. 16
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle of the River Plate, the struggle for Narvik, the hunt for the Bismarck, the destruction of the Italian Fleet at Taranto and Matapan are all vividly described...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that he had to make his own policy. Despite facing a much greater force, Cowan improvised one of the most daring raids...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Jutland: At the end of May 1916, a chance encounter with Admiral Hipper's battlecruisers has enabled Beatty to lead the German Battle Fleet into the jaws of Jellicoe's greatly superior force, but darkness had allowed Admiral Scheer to extricate his ships from a potentially disastrous situation. Though inconclusive, at the Battle of Jutland the German Fleet suffered so much damage that it made no further attempt to challenge the Grand...
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