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Author Halpern, Paul G., 1937-

Title A naval history of World War I / Paul G. Halpern
Published Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [1994]
©1994

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 W'PONDS  940.45 Hal/Nho  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 591 pages : illustrations
Contents 1. The Naval Balance in 1914 -- 2. Northern Waters: The First Six Months -- 3. The Mediterranean: 1914-1915 -- 4. Sweeping the Seas. The Defense of Allied Trade. German Forces Overseas: Colonies and Cruisers. The Imperial Convoys. Coronel and the Falklands -- 5. The Overseas Campaigns. Abortive North Sea and Baltic Projects. The Defense of Egypt and the Suez Canal. The Dardanelles Campaign. The Mesopotamian Campaign. The Eastern Mediterranean after the Dardanelles. North Russia -- 6. The Adriatic. Italy Enters the War. The Adriatic Stalemate. Evacuation of the Serbian Army. The Drifter Patrol and the Otranto Barrage. Attempts to Break the Adriatic Stalemate --7. The Baltic. German and Russian Naval Plans. Opening Moves. British Submarines. The 1915 Campaign. The British and Russian Submarine Offensive. 1916: Mine Warfare Predominant. 1917: Revolution and Paralysis. Operation Albion -- 8. The Black Sea. The German and Turkish Challenge: 1914-1916
Amphibious Operations on the Caucasus Front. Russian Naval Superiority. Decline and Collapse of the Black Sea Fleet -- 9. The Danube. The Serbian Campaign. The Romanian Campaign -- 10. From Dreadnoughts to Submarines: 1915-1916. The Germans Search for a Strategy. The First Submarine Campaign. The "Restricted" Submarine Campaign. The Battle of Jutland. Resumption of the Submarine Campaign -- 11. The Submarine Crisis: 1917. The Decision for Unrestricted Warfare. The Peak of German Success. British Minelaying. The Dover Barrages. The Convoy System. German Surface Raiders. The High Sea Fleet and the Submarine Campaign -- 12. The Mediterranean: 1915-1918. The U-Boat Flotilla. Ineffective Allied Countermeasures. The British Direct the Antisubmarine War. The Mediterranean Convoy System -- 13. 1918: The Submarine Threat Contained. A New Strategy for the Grand Fleet. The Dover Strait and the Coast of Flanders. The Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids. The Last Sortie of the High Sea Fleet
The Atlantic Bridge. The Northern Barrage. Naval Aviation in the Final Months. Der Tag: The End of the War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations.
LC no. 93024265
ISBN 0870212664 (alk. paper)