A01=George Bonney
Author_George Bonney
Category=JWLF
Category=NHD
Category=NHWR5
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Product details
- ISBN 9780750941785
- Dimensions: 210 x 298mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval battle of the First World War, and it represented the culmination of the war on the surface of the sea between Britain and Germany, and of the preparations for naval combat that began in 1897. To this day, there is still controversy over who really won the battle. The fighting took place in the confined waters of the North Sea, just off the entrance to the Skagerrak and the Danish province of Jutland. Both Germany and Britain fielded great numbers of Dreadnought battleships, with scouting cruisers, protecting destroyers, and torpedo boats. The carnage was massive, and heavy loses were suffered - some 6,097 British seamen and 2,551 German seamen had lost their lives. Germany claimed and continues to claim victory. But, although the Royal Navy's grand fleet suffered greatly in terms of ships and men lost, the net result was that for the rest of the war the German High Seas Fleet ceased to be a threat to Allied surface shipping. Lavishly illustrated with archive photographs and paintings, this book presents the Jutland story in an engaging and accessible style.
George Bonney served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, and was latterly a consultant physician at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, until his retirement in 1990. He lives in Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire.
