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Jutland, Analysis of the great naval battle of WWI by N.J.M. Campbell
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Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting
John Campbell
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD
1986
first American edition
A detailed study of the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of World War I, between the Imperial German Navy and the British Royal Navy. The narrative is focused on the on the tactics and action of the battle itself, explicitly ignoring the wider strategic and political issues which have been examined in depth by so many others. The battle has produced more inconclusive controversy from historians and naval officers than any other modern sea-fight and yet no previous study has made more than passing reference to the action and damage reports, ammunition expenditure returns or described adequately the various destroyer actions.
The wealth of material available from both navies is highly detailed and required an historian of John Campbell's scientific background to comprehend its full significance. His painstaking analysis throws new light on a host of technical questions, like how individual ships stood up to punishment and the quality of each ship's gunnery, as a result of which posterity may have to modify its judgment, for better or worse, of certain naval officers and ship designers.
Hard cover
439 pages, 9 1/2" X 6 1/4" (Octavo).Blue cloth, bright gilt lettering on spine, graphic dust jacket.
Dust jacket painting by Geoff Hunt of the Warspite in action at Jutland.
Very good. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down with date, else clean and unmarked, in a very good dust jacket with mild edge-disturbance along top edge and some minor shelf scuffs.
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