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Royal Navy Grand Fleet 1914-18: Britain's Last Supreme Naval Fleet (ISBN 9781472866837) is a softcover title in Osprey's Fleet series by naval historian Angus Konstam.
Features
- 80 pages
- Illustrated throughout
- Book dimensions are 10" x 7"
- Softcover
About the book
At the outbreak of World War I, the Royal Navy consolidated its forces into the Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow, Orkney, assembling over 30 dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers along with numerous cruisers and destroyers; a powerful American squadron reinforced it in 1917. The book assesses the fleet's ships, technology, organization, command and intelligence under Admiral Jellicoe, examining its role in several clashes with the German High Seas Fleet, most notably the Battle of Jutland in 1916, and how its continuing blockade of Germany contributed to the country's surrender in November 1918.
