Naval Operations, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Henry Newbolt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282626115 ISBN 13: 9780282626112

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Naval Operations, Vol. 4

The second favourable circumstance was due to a coinci dence. Sir Julian's last volume closed with the close of the battle of Jutland. Much remained to be. Said about that event, but the event itself had been fully narrated the first stage of the war had been brought to a definite conclusion. The period of great naval operations in the old sense was over the remaining volumes of the History were to deal with a new kind of war, a naval war on a vast scale, but conducted mainly by blockade and counter-blockade, both unexampled in kind; and with a moral struggle in which the vital conflict at sea was inseparably interwoven with a conflict of imponderable forces, acting by intrigues and negotiations, national and inter national. The new aspect would naturally call for some change or development of method, and the contrast between the working of two minds might thus be fortunately obscured.

A glance at the contents of the present volume will bear out what has been said. In the three opening chapters Sir Julian's narrative is directly continued from June 1, 1916. As the mists of confusion and misrepresentation clear away, the result of the battle of Jutland is plainly seen - the British policy and position are confirmed, and an imperative necessity is laid upon the German Government to abandon fleet action and go forward on the line of U-boat development.

At this point we are reminded that the work involved in the main struggle was not the sole call on our Navy: efforts were necessary in all parts of the world, some incidental to the main policy, some merely auxiliary to military Operations on land and some, again, carried on jointly with Allied forces. In order to place the whole position in a clear light it is necessary to bring up to date these secondary operations, and the eight sections of Chapter IV have this purpose. They include the adventurous story of the Tanganyika expedition the smallest and most distant of the whole war, and one of the most successful the brilliant episode of our submarine service in the Baltic and the concluding scenes of the epic of the Serbian Army.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282626115
• ISBN 13: 9780282626112
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 455