Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German high command reacted to Jutland by refocusing its efforts on submarine warfare, an attempt to strangle Britain out of the war. A major victory might ...

Louis D. Rubin, a professor emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that among certain British writers there is “a kind of obsession” about refighting the Battle ...

THOSE who seek the truth about any important military event of the World War find themselves confronted by a mass of contradictory evidence. Either side of the case may be presented in detail so ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Imperial Germany built the ships of the High Seas Fleet for one purpose: to destroy the battlefleet of the Royal Navy. For this purpose, they were good ships, but ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series. While for many ordinary people the outbreak of war in 1914 came as a ...

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it ...

Jutland, the biggest battleship shoot-out in history, has had literally hundreds of books devoted to it, memoirs, academic studies, official reports, and more. Yet it is also one of the most ...

THIS is an important book. It is neither a description of the navy at work, nor a general history of naval operations (the war against the submarine is dealt with not at all), but a detailed criticism ...

On 31st May, 1916, 250 warships and nearly 100,000 sailors converged in the North Sea for the world's first full-scale clash of dreadnought fleets. Admiral Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet was pitted against ...