From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Volume II: To The Eve of Jutland 1914-1916The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To |
Contents
Of Ships And Men | 3 |
The Mediterranean A Tragedy Of Errors | 20 |
Home Waters Frustrations And Disappointments | 42 |
The Triple Menace | 60 |
The Revolution At Whitehall | 82 |
Action In The Far Seas | 101 |
Alarums And Missed Opportunities | 130 |
The Search For A Naval Offensive | 176 |
The May Crisis | 266 |
The BalfourJackson Period The First Year May 1915May 1916 | 295 |
The New Board Of Admiralty | 297 |
The Mediterranean Problems Old And New | 308 |
Again The UBoats Minelayers And Surface Raiders | 342 |
Unrest In The Country And The Fleet | 378 |
The Grand Fleet Watchful Waiting | 408 |
The Eve Of Jutland | 436 |
Common terms and phrases
action Admiral Sir Admiralty MSS Allied anti-submarine armoured cruisers Army Asquith attack August Balfour Baltic battle cruisers battle fleet Battle Squadron battleships Beatty MSS Beatty’s Bight blockade Board bombardment Borkum British Cabinet campaign Canopus capital ships Captain Churchill Churchill’s coast command Council Cradock Cruiser Squadron Dardanelles Commission decision defences destroyers Dogger Bank dreadnoughts enemy enemy’s February fire flotillas force forts Gallipoli German Fleet Goeben Grand Fleet gunnery guns Hankey Heligoland High Seas Fleet Ibid Jackson January Jellicoe Jellicoe MSS Jellicoe's Keyes Kitchener light cruisers Lord Fisher Lord’s March Marmora Mediterranean merchant ships miles military minefield mines minesweepers naval operation Navy never North Sea November October offensive officers opinion patrol position Prime Minister raid Rear-Admiral Robeck Rosyth Royal Scapa Flow Sea Lord Second Sea Lord signal Spee speed Straits strategy Sturdee submarines success sweep telegram torpedo trawlers troops Troubridge Turkish Tyrwhitt U-boats vessels Vice-Admiral Wemyss World Crisis Zeppelins