British navy at war

An account of British naval operations during World War I, including descriptions of battles, use of submarines, and blockades and bombardments. Includes appendix of badges of rank in the Royal Navy and a list of German colonial possessions surrendered to the Allies since August 1914. "The real story of what the British Navy has done in the present war, including full and graphic descriptions of the Jutland Sea Fight and other engagements great and small, as well as an illuminating account of the submarine. The author was given every facility for gathering this information, and his book is as authentic as it is thrilling." Relatively unknown today, British poet and historian William Macneile Dixon was a popular writer in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes fold-out maps and charts, some in color.