Название: History of the Royal Navy: World War I
Автор: Mike Farquharson-Roberts
Издательство: I.B.Tauris
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 306
Размер: 31 Mb
Язык: English
For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval. Britain was not simply defending an island it was defending a far flung empire. Without the navy such an undertaking would have been impossible. Following the naval arms race in the early 20th century, both Britain and Germany were equipped with the latest naval technology, including revolutionary new vessels such as dreadnoughts
and diesel-powered submarines. This book places the navy back at the heart of the British war effort.