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Winner of the Longman''s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature

More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a ''new'' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would decisively change a war''s outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916, they thought their moment had come...

Andrew Gordon''s extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious aftermath.

The Rules of the Game

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 25/06/2015
      ISBN13: 9780141980324, 978-0141980324
      ISBN10: 014198032X
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      History European history: medieval period, middle ages Maritime history Politics, Philosophy & Society Naval forces and warfare

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the Longman''s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature

      More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a ''new'' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would decisively change a war''s outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916, they thought their moment had come...

      Andrew Gordon''s extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious aftermath.

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