Название: The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
Автор: Andrew Gordon
Издательство: Penguin
ISBN: 014198032X
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 720
Размер: 6,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a 'new' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would decisively change a war's outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916, they thought their moment had come...
Andrew Gordon's extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious aftermath.