Buy this book on-line SUTHERLAND, JON & CANWELL, DIANE: : THE BATTLE OF JUTLANDUK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MARITIME/PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2007. ISBN 1844155293.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line .] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, montage'd colour tinted portrait photographs and b/w art illustrated front panel of dw/dj with blue+black lettering to front,thumbnail detail of art+ illustration from front panel to spine/ backstrip with white lettering,rear panel of dw/dj with b/w artwork illustration; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks,tears or splits present - a tiny snick at head of spine/backstrip and an approx. 0.5cm closed tear at foot of rear,lower corner's tip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – but an accidental,tiny and uniform corner tip crease of consecutive pp53/6,no other corner tip creases present,else near pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,vii-xpp+1-213pp [paginated] includes author's Preface,an introduction, 10 chapters,16pp of contemporary b/w illustrations and b/w portraits and ship(s) photograph(s) in 1 block,between pp86/7,appendices (1+2),a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a ,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.
The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war.Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast.What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently,when Scheer threw his entire fleet in a mission to attack the British mainland in May 1916, he could not know that the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow were underway.
This is a fresh account of this greatest naval engagement,it offers fascinating insight into the events preceding the action,the tactics during the battle and the political and military fall-out.The book draws on released official records and personal accounts.
Jellicoe failed to ensnare Scheer and the bulk of the German fleet which escaped battered, but intact.The Germans knew however that despite their great fleet, it was the Royal Navy that controlled the North Sea.
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