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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 Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 25 June 2015
      ISBN-13 9780141980324
      978-0141980324
      ISBN-10 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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