Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.
Rules of Game
Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.
How We Advertised America
Author: George Creel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Official U. S. Bulletin
Author: United States. Committee on Public Information
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
In the Wake of the Flagship
Author: Fredrick Barton
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
ISBN: 9781608011063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Frederick Barton's newest work is a blistering satire chronicling one man's battle against bureaucracy and corruption. Basketball coach Richard Janus has found himself interim rector of Urban University, a woefully underfunded public college in Choctaw, Alkansea. After Hurricane Hosea devastates the city, Janus must go to war with the unscrupulous heads of Alkansea's flagship university, facing down massive layoffs and rabid football fans. The absurdity of the American experience is on full display here as Metacom, the legendary Indian sachem, narrates Janus's struggle, recounting academic intrigue and hypocrisy with searing humor. Barton's insight into human contradictions earns In the Wake of the Flagship a place beside other campus novel luminaries.
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
ISBN: 9781608011063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Frederick Barton's newest work is a blistering satire chronicling one man's battle against bureaucracy and corruption. Basketball coach Richard Janus has found himself interim rector of Urban University, a woefully underfunded public college in Choctaw, Alkansea. After Hurricane Hosea devastates the city, Janus must go to war with the unscrupulous heads of Alkansea's flagship university, facing down massive layoffs and rabid football fans. The absurdity of the American experience is on full display here as Metacom, the legendary Indian sachem, narrates Janus's struggle, recounting academic intrigue and hypocrisy with searing humor. Barton's insight into human contradictions earns In the Wake of the Flagship a place beside other campus novel luminaries.
Dunkirk and the Little Ships
Author: Philip Weir
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784423734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain death or capture. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – initially calculated that 45,000 men might be rescued, but between 26 May and 4 June 338,226 men were in fact brought back to England. Naval historian Philip Weir shows how this was made possible by a vast armada of disparate vessels including destroyers, minesweepers, fishing vessels and, most famously of all, the privately owned 'Little Ships'. He explores the vessels' various roles within the evacuation, and their subsequent fates, including preservation and participation in commemorative return runs to the port, which now take place every five years.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784423734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain death or capture. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – initially calculated that 45,000 men might be rescued, but between 26 May and 4 June 338,226 men were in fact brought back to England. Naval historian Philip Weir shows how this was made possible by a vast armada of disparate vessels including destroyers, minesweepers, fishing vessels and, most famously of all, the privately owned 'Little Ships'. He explores the vessels' various roles within the evacuation, and their subsequent fates, including preservation and participation in commemorative return runs to the port, which now take place every five years.
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
Author: United States Naval Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
Book Description
Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry in the Case of Rear-Admiral Winfield S. Schley, U.S. Navy
Author: Winfield Scott Schley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744020905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas. Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors going about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Look out, too, for the stowaway on every page. He's the one with spiky hair, and there's a reward for his capture! This absorbing book will have children--and adults--poring over every page. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War remains as entertaining as ever.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744020905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas. Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors going about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Look out, too, for the stowaway on every page. He's the one with spiky hair, and there's a reward for his capture! This absorbing book will have children--and adults--poring over every page. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War remains as entertaining as ever.
Seamanship
Author: Wilfred Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Seamanship
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seamanship
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seamanship
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description