Jutland, 1916 Steel Nigel
Jutland, 1916 Steel Nigel Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North…
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Jutland, 1916 Steel Nigel
Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. For the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, there was the chance to win another Trafalgar. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and expectations on both sides were high.
But Jutland was a confused and controversial encounter. For the German High Seas Fleet, there was the opportunity to break the British blockade and so change the course of the war. Tactically, it was a draw; strategically, it was a British victory.Naval historians have pored over the minutiae of Jutland ever since.
Yet they have largely ignored what the battle was actually like for its thousands of participants. Full of drama and pathos, of chaos and