Archive Results For: WW1
Distant but Close Observers: The officers of the Argentine navy and the First World War
This article identifies and analyses the observations, readings, and opinions that Argentine navy officers made about the First World War. It reveals that, although they did not directly take part in war operations, they were active observers of the conflict. These men carried out an intensive intellectual dialogue in books and articles, pointing out the […] Read More
Filed under: WW1
Subjects include: Administration | Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy
Book Review: ‘Years of Endurance: Life aboard the battlecruiser ‘Tiger’ 1914–16’ by J. R. Muir
The voice of the author speaks to us across nearly a century as he recounts his previous naval service during the First World War as a medical officer, principally his two years on the battlecruiser HMS Tiger where he experienced first-hand the Dogger Bank action in 1915 and the Jutland battle in 1916. This new […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | WW1 | North Sea
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea
Book Review: ‘Harwich Submarines in the Great War: The first submarine campaign of the Royal Navy in 1914’ by M. Harris
On 31 July 1914 12 D and E class ‘overseas’ submarines of the 8th Submarine Flotilla of the Royal Navy arrived at Harwich as part of the prescient deployment of the entire fleet to its planned war stations. They were accompanied by their depot ships Maidstone and Adamant and were joined four days later by […] Read More
Filed under: WW1
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Submarines
Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916
This article describes two cases where prisoners of war captured in the 1914–17 Black Sea naval conflict were interrogated. In the first case a captured Russian naval officer witnessed an operationally significant event after his interrogation, and covertly reported this via a coded letter. The second case, of an Armenian engineer, reflected a wider Russian […] Read More
Filed under: WW1
Subjects include: Strategy & Diplomacy
Bloody Orkney? A comparison of the perceptions held by sailors and the reality of leisure and recreational opportunities at Scapa Flow during the First World War
Abstract Scapa Flow became the primary naval base for the main Royal Navy fleet during the First World War. The ‘newness’ of Scapa as a naval base meant that it lacked any of the leisure and recreational opportunities that the ‘home’ naval ports, such as Portsmouth, offered. This led to Scapa gaining a reputation as […] Read More
Filed under: WW1 | North Sea
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Manpower & Life at Sea
Book Review-‘British Naval Intelligence Through the Twentieth Century’ by A. Boyd
This book comes off the press with a fanfare of praise from leading historians. Its publication is quite simply a major event. It will single-handedly stimulate our greater interest and deeper understanding of naval events of the last century. It will inform the serious study of the academic, yet reward and delight a wider readership.. Read More
Filed under: WW1 | WW2 | Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Battles & Tactics | Strategy & Diplomacy
Book Review-‘The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War’ by N. A. Lambert,
The declared aim of this book is to advance a new and explicitly revisionist analysis of the genesis of the Gallipoli campaign, the un-successful 1915 Allied assault, exclusively naval at first but subsequently also amphibious, on the narrow straits connecting the Medi-terranean to the Black Sea. This is not an under-researched area, a fact that […] Read More
Filed under: WW1
Subjects include: Administration | Battles & Tactics | Strategy & Diplomacy
Book Review-‘How Carriers Fought’ by L. Celander
While the tentative naval aerial operations of the First World War and the next two decades’ experiments and exercises had embedded the concept of sea-borne aviation, and even though steps had been taken by three major naval powers to equip their navies and devise potential tactics, it was only during the furious, testing years of […] Read More
Filed under: WW1 | Interwar | WW2
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Naval Aviation
Book Review-‘Castaways in Question: A story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification’ by D. Nudd
This is an entertaining book. The subject matter is the work of British interrogators, principally from the navy, in obtaining information from captured German sailors in the two World Wars. The story is largely told through interesting vignettes extracted from the intelligence reports produced on the back of these interrogations. At least for the Second […] Read More
Filed under: WW1 | Interwar | WW2
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Strategy & Diplomacy
Book Review-‘Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO’ by J. Crossley
This is the first biography of Roger Keyes for some decades and fills a surprising gap in the literature. Keyes had a hugely successful career and was an archetypal son of the British Empire. Born in India in 1872, where his father was commander of the Punjab Frontier Force, he was one of nine children. […] Read More
Filed under: WW1 | Interwar | WW2
Subjects include: Biography