UID:
almafu_9960120019902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-98766-6
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9786612987663
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1-84615-696-3
Inhalt:
Reassesses the role of the British Naval Staff during the First World War, challenging many widely-held views, and casting much new light on controversial issues and individuals. Winner of the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal, 2010. Nicholas Black examines the role of the Naval Staff of the Admiralty in the 1914-18 war, reassessing both the calibre of the Staff and the function and structure of the Staff. He challenges historians such as Arthur Marder and naval figures such as Captains Herbert Richmond and Kenneth Dewar who were influential in creating the largely bad press that the Staff has received subsequently, showing that their influence has, at times, been both unhealthy and misinformed. The way in which the Staff developed during the war from a small, overstretched and often manipulated body, to a much more highly specialised and successful one is also examined, reassessing the roles of key individuals such as Jellicoe and Geddes, and suggesting that the structure of the Staff has been misunderstood and that it was a rather more sophisticated body than historians have traditionally appreciated. Black also looks at how the Staff performed in various major naval issues of the war: the role of the Grand Fleet, the war against the U-boat, the Dardanelles Operation and the implementation of the economic blockade against Germany. Overall, the book complements, and at times challenges, both operational histories of the war and biographies of the leading individuals involved. NICHOLAS BLACK is Head of History at Dulwich College.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Admiralty War Staff, 1912-1918: An Analysis of the Personnel; 2. The Establishment of the War Staff, and its Work before the Outbreak of War in August 1914; 3. The Churchill-Battenberg Regime, August-October 1914; 4. The Churchill-Fisher Regime, October 1914-May 1915; 5. The Balfour-Jackson Regime, May 1915-November 1916; 6. The Jellicoe Era, November 1916-December 1917; 7. The Geddes-Wemyss Regime, December 1917-November 1918; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A: SENIOR ADMIRALTY AND STAFF OFFICIALS
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APPENDIX B: THE ADMIRALTY TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES, 1914-1918APPENDIX C: ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADMIRALTY WAR STAFF, 1912-1918; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84383-655-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84383-442-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781846156960
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http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846156960/type/BOOK
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