EBOOK Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914:Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War A -

EBOOK Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914:Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War A
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191640742
EAN: 8BC8CB7AEB
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Stron: 208
Data wydania: 2012
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When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime        power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking,        Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of        the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the        British Admiralty (rightly) believed that Germany's naval planners intended to arm        their country's fast merchant vessels in wartime and send them out to attack        Britishtrade in the manner of the privateers of old. This threat to British seaborne        commerce was so serious that the leadership of the Royal Navy spent twelve years        trying to work out how best to counter it. Ever more elaborate measures were devised        to this end. These included building 'fighting liners'to run down the German ones;        devising a specialized warship, the battle cruiser, as a weapon of trade defence;        attempting to change international law to prohibit the conversion of merchant        vessels into warships on the high seas; establishing a global intelligence network        to monitor German shipping movements; and, finally, the arming of British merchant        vessels in self-defence.The manner in which German schemes for commerce warfare        drove British naval policy for over a decade before 1914 has not been recognized        before. The Royal Navy and the German Threat illustrates a new and important aspect        of British naval history.

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