Written as hostilities began in 1914, this survey by a leading naval journalist compares the British and German fleets ship by ship. Hurd describes Jellicoe and the German commander, the officers and men, foreign navies, German naval bases and the Kiel Canal, and the events at sea in the years leading up to war.
A vivid snapshot of naval power at the moment the Great War began, for naval and military history readers. Download the free EPUB.