Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson, describes how the fleet mobilised within minutes of the declaration of war in 1917. He covers Admiral Sims’s mission to London, conferences with the Allied navies, the convoys that carried troops through the U-boat zone, and the close calls of liners such as the St. Louis.
An insider’s official-minded but detailed record of America’s naval war, for students of the First World War at sea. Download the free EPUB.