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Naval Operations Volume 1, To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914. Revised 2nd Edition 1938 (History of the Great War Based on Official Documents)

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Michigan, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. Part of the series History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. First published 1920. Revised edition 1938 edited by E Y Daniel, Lieut.-Colonel R.M., Secretary, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence. The Preface to Revised Edition says "The first edition of this volume was published eighteen years ago. As it was also the first instalment of Official History to be issued by any of the belligerent States, the author, the late Sir Julian Corbett, had of necessity to base his narrative almost solely upon our own records, and laboured under the disadvantage of having only incomplete information as to the activities of our opponents. A far more comprehensive study is now possible, for a mass of material has become available, notably in the issue of the German Official History, Der Krieg zur See, 1914-1918 , the following six volumes of which have been consulted:- Der Krieg in der Nordsee , Volumes I and II; Der Kreuzerkrieg , Volumes I, II and III; Die Mittel

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