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Slaughter
at Sea

THE TRUTH BEHIND A NAVAL WAR CRIME
by
Alan Coles

First published 1986 by
Robert Hale Limited, London
£8.00 + P & P

A black cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in NEAR FINE condition in a unclipped NEAR FINE dust wrapper. Tipped in review of the book.
ISBN 0 7090 2597 1

202 pages

145 mm. x 220 mm. x 28 mm.

Blurbs

SLAUGHTER AT SEA
The Truth Behind a Naval War Crime
ALAN COLES

The Baralong Affair was a British disgrace: a war crime unparalleled in the modern history of the Royal Navy. Until now its shameful details have been deliberately obscured, but its significance in delaying the entry of the United States into the First World War has never been evaluated.

In 1915 the War Office sent out the Q-ship Baralong elaborately disguised as a US merchant ship. On encountering the U-27 she threw off the camouflage and sank the German vessel. The subsequent alleged murder in cold blood of some of the U-boat's survivors caused an international diplomatic furore. President Wilson turned away in horror; the Germans saw the incident as a valuable weapon of propaganda; and the British Admiralty battened down on all official records.

The facts can now be told. In clear detail, Alan Coles reveals the appalling truth of the Baralong Affair. For the first time British, American and German eye-witness accounts of the atrocities have been collected together to explain — and finally to judge — this naval scandal.

About the author

Alan Coles has been a journalist since the age of sixteen. His interest in naval affairs began during National Service when he was a court martial and board of inquiry shorthand writer with the Mediterranean Fleet. He has worked both in the provinces and on Fleet Street but is now a lecturer in journalism at University College, Cardiff. He is the author of many naval books including the much acclaimed Flagship Hood. He lives in Dartmouth.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue

Chapter

  1. The Muleteers
  2. The Neutrals
  3. The Hunters
  4. The Killers
  5. The Spies
  6. The Witnesses
  7. The Propagandists
  8. The Appeasers
  9. The Diplomats
  10. The Germans
  11. The Inhumane
  12. The Runaway
  13. The Survivors
  14. The Baby-killers
  15. The Myth-makers
  16. The Guilty Epilogue

Bibliography
Reference notes
Appendix
Index

Illustrations

  1. The mule ship Nicosian which survived a U-boat attack and the First World War
  2. The Q-ship Baralong unscathed at Malta after her involvement in the sinking of two U-boats
  3. The liner Arabic torpedoed a few hours before the Baralong intercepted and sank U-27
  4. How the guns of the Baralong were concealed below a lifeboat
  5. One of the Baralong's guns cleared for action
  6. Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Herbert with the crew of D.5
  7. Herbert decorated with the DSO
  8. Godfrey Herbert, always a gambler, shows off his winnings in Rhodesia
  9. Gordon Steele with other Royal Navy holders of the VC
  10. Gordon Steele as captain-superintendent of the training ship Worcester
  11. Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, the First Sea Lord, who interviewed Herbert after the first Baralong incident
  12. Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the USA at the time of the U-boat controversies
  13. Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador in Washington
  14. William Jennings Bryan with his successor as American Secretary of State, Robert Lansing
  15. Walter Page takes up his appointment as American Ambassador to Great Britain
  16. James Gerard, the American Ambassador to Germany, who was caught up in the Baralong incidents
  17. The SS Urbino coasting off England
 
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