Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World WarAnglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and the battle was far from conclusive. In his own account of the war in the North Sea, first published in 1920, Admiral Scheer, the German commander at Jutland, gives his own explanation for the failure of either fleet to achieve the decisive victory expected of it, particularly the failure of his own operation plans that resulted in the battle of Jutland. This book is an invaluable account of one of the most important theatres of the First World War, written by one of its most senior commanders. |
Contents
THE ENGLISH BREAK INTO THE HELIGOLAND BIGHT | |
THE AUTUMN AND WINTER MONTHS OF 1914 | |
BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH AND HARTLEPOOL AND THE BATTLE | |
THE YEAR OF THE WAR 1915 | |
PREPARATIONS FOR INCREASED FLEET ACTIVITY | |
ENTERPRISES IN THE HOOFDEN AND BOMBARDMENT OF YARMOUTH | |
AIRSHIP ATTACKS | |
The Uboat Campaign | |
OUR UBOATS AND THEIR METHOD OF WARFARE | |
ACTIVITY OF THE FLEET DURING THE UBOAT CAMPAIGN | |
THE CONQUEST OF THE BALTIC ISLANDS AND THE CAPTURE | |
OUR LIGHT CRAFT IN ACTION AND ADVANCE OF OUR FLEET TO | |
THE NAVY COMMAND | |
AFTER THE BATTLE | |
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