Official War History Of The Great War: Naval Operations Vol. IV (1928) By Henry Newbolt
Up-to-date, well-researched naval histories have an important part to play in understanding past events, but I would like to suggest they are equalled by contemporary accounts written not long after the stories they describe, and often by those who took part.
Such near-contemporary accounts include the five volumes of NAVAL OPERATIONS, the first three by Sir Julian S Corbett and the last two by Henry Newbolt.
They are indispensable to any researcher or scholar of World War 1 who wants to start to understand the vastness of the war at sea and the role of the Royal Navy and its Allies.
The naval war, 1914-18 is almost considered peripheral to the war as a whole, especially compared with the Western Front. However, World War 1 was just as much a maritime struggle as that of World War 2. If it had been lost to either the German High Seas Fleet or the later U-boat campaign, Allied victory would have been very much in doubt. Hence the value of these volumes.
- Map 1. Operations in the North Sea, 19th Aug 1916
- Map 2. The raid on the Dover Straits, 26th - 27th Oct 1916
- Map 3. Operations in the Flanders Bight 23rd Jan 1917
- Map 4. To illustrate operations for the relief of Kut
- Map 5. Strategical plan of the action in the Adriatic, 29th Dec 1915
- Map 6. Tactical plan of the action in the Adriatic, 29th Dec 1915
- Map 7. Attack on the Allied landing parties at Athens, 1st Dec 1916
- Map 8. Operations against S.M.S. Moewe, 10th-31st Dec 1916
- Map 9. Operations against the Moewe
- Map 10. Plan illustrating action in the Adriatic, 15th May 1917
- Map 11. Submarine campaign in the Channel and western approaches
- [Maps 12, 13 to be included in volume 5]
- Map 14. Intercepting dispositions.
- Hard Cover Box containing Maps
- In Fair to Good Condition