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WW1 BRITISH NAVAL JOURNALIST'S contemporary POV 1918
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THE NAVY IN BATTLE

 by
ARTHUR HUNGERFORD POLLEN

1st edition published 1918
by
Chatto & Windus, London

A navy cloth bound book with gilt lettering and decoration to spine (lightly faded) and front board . Very little rubbing. Corners still sharp - ink inscription ffep dated 1918.Coloured frontispiece ( Ad. Beatty) has a taped tear but tissue guard is intact. Page block very square, dyed top edge; others tidily rough cut - has very little foxing/acid staining mainly first and last few pages - predominately clear. In VERY GOOD condition.

£10.00 + P & P
MARDER
"Pollen, Arthur Hungerford, The Navy in Battle (London, Chatto & Windus, 1918). American edition : The British Navy in Battle (New York, Doubleday, Page, 1918). Pollen was a well-known naval journalist, and this narrative of the Royal Navy in action (through the Zeebrugge operation of 1918), following introductory chapters on principles of sea power, naval materiel, etc., is of interest as revealing how much, or how little, was known about the principal actions in 1918. Should be used with extreme caution, particularly for Jutland."

CONTENTS

Chapter    
I.
   A GREETING BY WAY OF DEDICATION
II.
   A RETROSPECT
 
  THE FIRST CRISIS
THE SECOND CRISIS
THE THIRD CRISIS
THE FOURTH CRISIS
THE NEW ERA
III.
   SEA FALLACIES : A PLEA FOR FIRST PRINCIPLES
IV.
   SOME ROOT DOCTRINES
V.
   ELEMENTS OF SEA FORCE
VI.
   THE ACTIONS
VII.
   NAVAL GUNNERY, WEAPONS, AND TECHNIQUE
 
  FIRE CONTROL
THE TORPEDO IN BATTLE
VIII.
   THE ACTION THAT NEVER WAS FOUGHT
IX.
   THE DESTRUCTION OF H.I.G.M.S. KOENIGSBURG
 
  THE FIRST ATTEMPT
SUCCESS
A PROBLEM IN CONTROL
X.
   THE CAPTURE OF H.I.G.M.S. EMDEN
XI.
   THE CAREER OF VON SPEE (I)
 
  CORONEL
XII.
   BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (I)
 
  THE NEW ERATHE CAREER OF VON SPEE (II)
(A) PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS
XIII.
   BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (II)
 
  (B) ACTION WITH THE ARMOURED CRUISERS
XIV.
   BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (III)
 
  (C) ACTION WITH THE LIGHT CRUISERS
(D) ACTION WITH THE ENEMY TRANSPORTS
XV.
   BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS (IV)
 
  THE NEW ERASTRATEGY, TACTICS, GUNNERY
BRITISH STRATEGY
THE TACTICS OF THE BATTLE
A POINT IN NAVAL ETHICS
XVI.
   THE HELIGOLAND AFFAIR
 
  THE NORTH SEA
XVII.
   THE ACTION OFF THE DOGGER BANK (I)
XVIII.
   THE DOGGER BANK (II)
XIX.
   THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND
 
  I. NORTH SEA STRATEGIES
XX.
   THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND (continued)
 
  II. THE URGENCY OF A DECISION
XXI.
   THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND (continued)
 
  III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF FORCES
THE ACTION : FIRST PHASE
XXII.
   THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND (continued)
 
  IV. THE SECOND PHASE
XXIII.
   THE JUTLAND BATTLE
 
  THE THREE OBJECTIVES
THE TACTICAL PLANS :
  ADMIRAL SCHEER
SIR DAVID BEATTY'S TACTICS
SIR JOHN JELLICOE'S TACTICS
XXIV.
   THE JUTLAND BATTLE :
   
  THE COURSE OF THE ACTION
THE GERMAN RETREAT
THE NIGHT ACTIONS AND THE EVENTS OF JUNE 1
XXV.
   ZEEBRUGGE
   
  STRATEGICAL OBJECT
SIR ROGER KEYES' TACTICS
ATTACK ON THE MOLE
MORAL EFFECT

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