THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS THE HISTORY OF A GERMAN TRAP BY Michael Cababé of Balliol College, Oxford, and of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law

Published 1918 by John Murray London

An olive cloth bound book with black lettering to spine in Good Plus - Very Good condition. Pages clean and bright but bottom of the page blocks front edge has a small brown stain. In a chipped dust wrapper with a blind tear.

160 pages. 130 mm. x 190 mm. x 20 mm.

This work, by a very respected barrister, provides an insight into the machinations of Germany and her allies into weakening Britain's perceived right to deny Germany the imports necessary to sustain herself during the war. The author starts with the historical precedents and goes on to explain how Germany, knowing the British would use a blockade from day one of a future war, set about muddying the waters from the London conference onwards – Britain's weak politicians falling for the ‘trap' alluded to - and building on other nations resentment of Britain's naval supremacy. In this they were very successful, so much so, that Germany's unrestricted submarine campaign only brought the Americans into the war at the last moment.

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Contents

Preface

Section

I. THE COMMON SENSE OF IT

II. THE LAW OF IT

III. THE TRAP

IV. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRAP

V. CONCLUSIONS

Appendix

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