Official War History Of The Great War: Naval Operations Vol. IV (1928) By Henry Newbolt
 
Up-to-date, well-researched naval histories have an important part to play in understanding past events, but I would like to suggest they are equalled by contemporary accounts written not long after the stories they describe, and often by those who took part.
 
Such near-contemporary accounts include the five volumes of NAVAL OPERATIONS, the first three by Sir Julian S Corbett and the last two by Henry Newbolt.
 
They are indispensable to any researcher or scholar of World War 1 who wants to start to understand the vastness of the war at sea and the role of the Royal Navy and its Allies.
 
The naval war, 1914-18 is almost considered peripheral to the war as a whole, especially compared with the Western Front. However, World War 1 was just as much a maritime struggle as that of World War 2. If it had been lost to either the German High Seas Fleet or the later U-boat campaign, Allied victory would have been very much in doubt. Hence the value of these volumes.
 
Map 1. Operations in the North Sea, 19th Aug 1916
Map 2. The raid on the Dover Straits, 26th - 27th Oct 1916
Map 3. Operations in the Flanders Bight 23rd Jan 1917
Map 4. To illustrate operations for the relief of Kut
Map 5. Strategical plan of the action in the Adriatic, 29th Dec 1915
Map 6. Tactical plan of the action in the Adriatic, 29th Dec 1915
Map 7. Attack on the Allied landing parties at Athens, 1st Dec 1916
Map 8. Operations against S.M.S. Moewe, 10th-31st Dec 1916
Map 9. Operations against the Moewe
Map 10. Plan illustrating action in the Adriatic, 15th May 1917
Map 11. Submarine campaign in the Channel and western approaches
[Maps 12, 13 to be included in volume 5]
Map 14. Intercepting dispositions.
 
Hard Cover Box containing Maps
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