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Jutland: The debate rages on
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The most crucial naval battle of World War I is still a topic of intense debate by naval enthusiasts.
The roots of World War I were buried deep in the nineteenth century. As early as 1860, King William I of Prussia announced: "The Prussian Army will, in the future, also be the Prussian Nation in Arms." Eventually compulsory conscription would provide Prussia with a huge standing army backed up by a reservoir of trained reservists. These policies became increasingly threatening to worl...
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The continuing argument over Jutland
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ... particular topic could ever be written. Gordon divides his book into five parts-all 690 pages of it, about 230,000 words together with maps, charts, diagrams, plus 40 photographs and a few line drawings. Part I, "Background to Battle," sends the Grand Fleet eastward ...
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The heroes that England expects Books
Evening Standard - London
; AT WAR AT SEA: Sailors and Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Ronald Spector (Penguin, 20) IN September 1906 the Royal Navy commissioned the first of the Dreadnoughts, 18,000-ton super battleships with ten 12in guns and a top speed of 21 knots. Conceived in great secrecy, it was a bold
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The heroes that England expects; Books.(Review)
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: LAWRENCE FREEDMAN AT WAR AT SEA: Sailors and Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Ronald Spector (Penguin, [pound]20) IN September 1906 the Royal Navy commissioned the first of the Dreadnoughts, 18,000-ton super battleships with ten 12in guns and a top speed of 21 knots. Conceived in
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Horse Racing: Side with Dascombe and super Sawwaah; MARK WINSTANLEY on Monday.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England)
; Byline: MARK WINSTANLEY WHEN it comes to favourite racecourses, Woodbine, Churchill Downs, Sandown and Cheltenham spring readily to mind, and you can throw in York as well. There is no doubt the worst track I've ever had the misfortune to visit is Folkestone. I never bet at the track, because the
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Book reviews: Round-up by SB Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
; JUTLAND 1916 Nigel Steel and Peter Hart Cassell, GBP 25 The clash between the Royal Navy's grand fleet and the German high seas fleet was the largest maritime battle of the First World War. Through the deft use of written reminiscence and oral history the two authors present an almost cinematic
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Shedding light on war raid.(News)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; THE Somme Heritage Centre is continuing its popular First World War lecture series with a talk by David Truesdale on the little-known St George's Day Raid. The raid, disputed to this day over whether it was a success or failure, happened around the time of the Battle of Jutland in 1916 when the
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Letters found in attic givea personal insight into WWI battle in Falklands.(News)(Letter to the editor)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; A buckled ceiling at a Welsh country house has led to the discovery of important eyewitness accounts of key First World War battles. The long-lost cache of letters was found stuffed in a drawer of an old dresser in an attic room above the damaged ceiling of a house in Lower Garth, near Welshpool.
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Messing about in warships Britain's First World War naval commanders were a pretty unimpressive lot, says Max Hastings Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie Jonathan Cape, pounds 25, 800 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
The Sunday Telegraph London
; MY FIRST literary agent asserted that one can get away with writing a new biography of anybody every 10 years. If the same licence is available to narrative historians, then there is nothing wrong with Robert K. Massie's account of the First World War at sea. His canvas is magnificent, rich in
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A Grand first victory for Johnston
The Northern Echo
; GRAND Fleet gave Mark Johnston his first two-year-old winner of the season with a smooth victory in the European Breeders' Fund Maiden Stakes at Nottingham.The Middleham trainer has 100 youngsters and Grand Fleet (9-4) was just the third to represent him but he gave a highly-promising
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Johnston juveniles look sure to make mark at Hamilton; Watching trainers.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England)
; Byline: Kevin Morley TWO weeks ago, Watching The Trainers identified the best way to profit from Mark Johnston's three-year-old stayers, and it is the Middleham handler who is under the microscope again this week. This time it is his juveniles who catch the eye, and a close inspection of his record
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