Nicholas Black

The British Naval Staff in the First World War (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 receivedsubsequently, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846156960
• Artikelnr.: 68307769

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Black

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Introduction The Admiralty War Staff, 1912
1918: An Analysis of the Personnel The Establishment of the War Staff and its Work before the Outbreak of War in August 1914 The Churchill
Battenberg Regime, August
October 1914 The Churchill
Fisher Regime, October 1914
May 1915 The Balfour
Jackson Regime, May 1915
November 1916 The Jellicoe Era, November 1916
December 1917 The Geddes
Wemyss Regime, December 1917
November 1918 Conclusion Appendix A: Senior Admiralty and Staff Officials Appendix B: The Admiralty Telephone Directories, 1914
1918 Appendix C: Administrative Development of the Admiralty War Staff, 1912
1918 Bibliography