Product Description

The battle of Jutland has produced more inconclusive controversy from historians and naval officers than any other modern sea fight. Ignoring the wider strategic and political issues, this book focuses on what actually happened, examining the ships, action, damage reports and other data.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #759518 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

Customer Reviews

Technically brilliant, but not for the casual reader
The most comprehensive analysis available of the battle performance of ships and weapons of the dreadnought era. This is a book for the technical enthusiast. Every movement is carefully detailed and just about every single hit on every ship is chronicled, down to the smallest destroyer, describing exactly what damage was inflicted and exactly when it happened. If you want to know, in detail, what happens when half a ton of steel and high explosive travelling at 1,000mph hits a foot-thick armour plate this is the book for you. This probably isn't the book for you if (a) you want some light bedtime reading or (b) you think people are more important than machines (the general flavour: "Splinters drove through the sighting slits...killing four and wounding all the others inside, but the 8" armour was only scarred by splinters..."). I loved it.

Comprehensive technical account of Jutland
The most complete techical account of the fighting at the Battle of Jutland. For the human side, see The Rules of The Game, by Andrew Gordon.

Essential reading
This is an essential book if you are interested in naval warfare.

We all know that Jutland was indecisive or at most a tactical victory for the Germans or a pyrhic victory for the British.

What this book details is a blow by blow account of the fighting, detailing the effects of shells, visibility, gunnery control and damage inflicted as well as showing how, if the game had been on a chess board, both sides could have improved their performance.

The best part is that it is written with almost a technical manual approach - so no flannel or flummery. Just straight.