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Author: Marie CorelliPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Eyes of the Sea. (A Tribute to the Grand Fleet and the Grand Fleet's Commander.) [With a Portrait.].
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Author: Marie CorelliAdmiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: The Last Naval Hero
Author: Stephen RoskillPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526706571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Admiral Beatty was beyond doubt the best known fighting Admiral, perhaps the best known military leader, of the First World War. His conduct at Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, and later at Jutland, caught the public imagination, while his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet in taking into custody the German High Sea Fleet in November 1918 associated him with perhaps the most tangible symbol of the collapse of Germanys military might. He is probably remembered by most for his comment at Jutland that there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today after two of his battlecruisers were sunk in quick succession.Stephen Roskills magnificent biography of Beatty explains so well why he has come to be seen as Britains last naval hero, an admiral in the mould of Nelson who won the unstinting devotion of all those who served with and under him. He came from an Anglo-Irish military family who exhibited the utmost gallantry on the field of battle with a corresponding recklessness in the hunting field, while he himself was extremely handsome and courageous and exuded charisma. His early promise led to fast promotion and he was to become the youngest Admiral since Nelson.But that is only one part of the story and there are aspects of his character that were not entirely admirable. There were, and still remain, questions over his handling of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at Jutland at which his highly aggressive approach was contrasted with the prudence of his commander, Sir John Jellicoe, and the later animosities between the Jellicoe and Beatty camps reflect poorly on Beatty himself. His turbulent marriage and his extra-marital liaisons were to be suppressed in his official biography but in some ways these aspects are as significant to our understanding of him as Nelson and Emma Hamiltons great affair is to our reading of the Napoleonic era at sea.Roskill deals with all these issues and in doing so brilliantly reassesses Beatty place in history. Access to new material at the time of writing allowed him to write a balanced and wholly credible account of an extraordinary life, and this wonderfully readable and intimate biography will appeal to a whole new generation of readers.
Admirals of the British Navy: Portraits in Colours with Introductory and Biographical Notes
Author: Francis DoddPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465572333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
The Grand Fleet, 1914-16
Author: John Rushworth JellicoePublisher:
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Category : Jutland, Battle of, 1916
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Victory at Sea
Author: William Sowden SimsPublisher:
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Admirals of the British Navy
Author: Francis DoddPublisher: Fite Press
ISBN: 1443768103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In October of the same year, in which he also received the command of the Second and Third Fleets. At the Battle of Jutland he was second in command of the Grand Fleet and was mentioned in despatches. He became a G.C.M.G. and Admiral in 1916, being decorated Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour for his war services in the same year. In 1916 he was also appointed Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty. He also holds the Order of St. Vladimir Second Class with swords, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. Admiral Burney retired from the post of Second Sea Lord in August, I 9 I 7, and in October was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East Coast of Scotland in succession to the late Admiral Sir Frederick Hamilton.
The Eyes of the Navy
Author: William Milbourne JamesPublisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Grand Fleet Days
Author: Montague Thomas HainsselinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
With The Battle Cruisers [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: Filson YoungPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786255642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Contains 54 illustrations and 3 maps. By the time that Filson Young found himself aboard Admiral Sir David Beatty’s flagship in the North Sea just before the First World War he had a varied career as a novelist, journalist and war correspondent. He had been a special reporter during the Boer War and also written about naval subjects such as the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the Titanic. In this novel, also known as “With Beatty in the North Sea” chronicles his time as a Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant with the Grand Fleet in 1915-1916, and he provides a gripping eye-witness account of the Battle of Dogger Bank. He left the Navy in 1916 before the battle of Jutland. He recorded his experiences a few years later of his life at sea in the Grand Fleet in this book which captures but the action of the battle and the personalities of the crews he served with.
Our Admiral
Author: Charles Robert Longfield BeattyPublisher: W H Allen
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description