Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, Winning of the Great War

Castles of steel: britain, germany, and the winning of the great war at sea   paperback   896 pagina s goede staat for the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in august 1914, great britain and germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts—gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away—were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the north sea and the pacific, at the falkland islands and the dardanelles. They reached their climax when germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the british ring of steel. The result was jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the german high seas fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted u-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant america into the war. In this way, the german effort to “seize the trident” by defeating the british navy led to the fall of the german empire.