Full name: The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

Author: Andrew Gordon Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780719561313 0719561310

When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued maritime dominance, the Royal Navy failed to crush its numerically inferior German opponent. The encounter has remained an enduring source of controversy ever since. A remarkable saga of genius, tragedy, and passive corruption emerges. In telling this remarkable story of Nelsonic pragmatism overwhelmed by peacetime vested interests, Andrew Gordon shows what had changed for the worse in the "rules of the game" during a long century of peace, and draws fascinating and challenging conclusions. Similar books: A Naval History of World War I by Paul G. Halpern Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie The Long Shadow by David Reynolds World War One by Norman Stone July 1914 by Sean McMeekin Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur The Lost History of 1914 by Jack Beatty The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson The Origins of the First World War by James Joll A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro A Short History of World War I by James L. Stokesbury A World Undone by G. J. Meyer Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan