Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War
Author:   Daniel A. Butler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:  

9780275990732


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 July 2006
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Format:   Hardback
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Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War


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Distant Victory is an examination of the great sea fight at Jutland that is more than a mere balance sheet of ships sunk and lives lost, or an account of which fleet fled before the other. Rather, it is an a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made as a result of each fleet's experience at Jutland. While the German High Seas Fleet could claim a tactical victory because it sank more ships and inflicted higher casualties on the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet than the British did to the Germans, the British could rightly claim that strategically they won the battle, for when it was over the German warships had retreated to the safety of their harbors, having failed in their objective of defeating the Grand Fleet in detail. For the past nine decades the Battle of Jutland has been history's most hotly debated and least understood naval action. Treated usually as a tactical German victory or else as a draw, and dismissed as strategically indecisive, it has been remembered by historians as for its lost opportunities, mistakes, and sheer scale, the largest naval surface action ever fought and the greatest clash of battleships the world would ever see. The Battle of Jutland has never been seen as one of the decisive battles of the First World War.

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Author:   Daniel A. Butler
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780275990732


ISBN 10:   0275990737
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 July 2006
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Author's Note A Note to the Reader Regarding Time and Distance Prologue: Trafalgar 1 The Great War 2 Dreadnoughts, Battleships, and Battlecruisers 3 Strategies and Stratagems 4 The Price of Admiralty 5 Twisting the Lion's Tail 6 Gambit 7 ""There's Something Wrong with Our Bloody Ships Today!"" 8 The Thunder of the Guns 9 Steel Maelstrom 10 The Reckoning 11 The Fatal Blunder 12 Distant Victory Epilogue: Scapa Flow Appendix I: Royal Navy Order of Battle—the Grand Fleet at Jutland Appendix II: Imperial Navy Order of Battle—the High Seas Fleet at Jutland Sources Index"

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<p> [D]istant Victory is an entertaining introduction to the Jutland era in naval history....It provides a good read for buffs. - <p>The Journal of Military History


[D]istant Victory is an entertaining introduction to the Jutland era in naval history....It provides a good read for buffs. -The Journal of Military History


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Daniel Allen Butler is the author of Unsinkable: The Full Story of RMS Titanic, The Lusitania: The Life, Loss and Legacy of an Ocean Legend, Warrior Queens: RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War Two, and The Age of Cunard: A Transatlantic History, 1839-1999.

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