Distant Victory
Title | Distant Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel A. Butler |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2006-07-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0313081344 |
Distant Victory is an examination of the great sea fight at Jutland that is more than a mere balance sheet of ships sunk and lives lost, or an account of which fleet fled before the other. Rather, it is an a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made as a result of each fleet's experience at Jutland. While the German High Seas Fleet could claim a tactical victory because it sank more ships and inflicted higher casualties on the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet than the British did to the Germans, the British could rightly claim that strategically they won the battle, for when it was over the German warships had retreated to the safety of their harbors, having failed in their objective of defeating the Grand Fleet in detail. For the past nine decades the Battle of Jutland has been history's most hotly debated and least understood naval action. Treated usually as a tactical German victory or else as a draw, and dismissed as strategically indecisive, it has been remembered by historians as for its lost opportunities, mistakes, and sheer scale, the largest naval surface action ever fought and the greatest clash of battleships the world would ever see. The Battle of Jutland has never been seen as one of the decisive battles of the First World War.
The Life of St. Francis Xavier
Title | The Life of St. Francis Xavier PDF eBook |
Author | Daniello Bartoli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 662 |
Release | 1889 |
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Tarnished Victory
Title | Tarnished Victory PDF eBook |
Author | William Marvel |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547428065 |
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
Victory
Title | Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1916 |
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Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, at the Dinner Given in Honour of Henry Brougham ... Together with Mr. Brougham's Address to the Students at His Installation to the Office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow
Title | Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, at the Dinner Given in Honour of Henry Brougham ... Together with Mr. Brougham's Address to the Students at His Installation to the Office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1825 |
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World's Work
Title | World's Work PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1915 |
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Munsey's Magazine
Title | Munsey's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 956 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Short stories |
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