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This compelling, comprehensive account of the Battle of Jutland shows how the key naval battle helped shape the outcome of the First World War.

Table of Contents

Author's Note A Note to the Reader Regarding Time and Distance Prologue: Trafalgar 1 The Great War 2 Dreadnoughts, Battleships, and Battlecruisers 3 Strategies and Stratagems 4 The Price of Admiralty 5 Twisting the Lion's Tail 6 Gambit 7 "There's Something Wrong with Our Bloody Ships Today!" 8 The Thunder of the Guns 9 Steel Maelstrom 10 The Reckoning 11 The Fatal Blunder 12 Distant Victory Epilogue: Scapa Flow Appendix I: Royal Navy Order of Battle—the Grand Fleet at Jutland Appendix II: Imperial Navy Order of Battle—the High Seas Fleet at Jutland Sources Index

About the Author

Daniel Allen Butler is the author of Unsinkable: The Full Story of RMS Titanic, The Lusitania: The Life, Loss and Legacy of an Ocean Legend, Warrior Queens: RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War Two, and The Age of Cunard: A Transatlantic History, 1839-1999.

Reviews

[D]istant Victory is an entertaining introduction to the Jutland era in naval history….It provides a good read for buffs.
*The Journal of Military History*

Germany's new foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman's equally new maritime policies ensured allied victory in the Great War, and the Battle of Jutland is one the best cases in point. Controversial from the moments the guns silenced, with Germany claiming victory in terms of tonnage sunk and the Royal Navy claiming strategic victory in chasing the German fleet back into their harbors, the battle resulted in the failure of the German fleet to break the British blockade. Realizing that despite the boasts of the German admiralty, Germany had in essence failed, Zimmerman and other civilian authorities turned to submarine warfare, a tactic that was successful only in bringing the US into the war out of fear. Maritime writer Butler concentrates on the little-known reasons why Jutland proved to be decisive in ways even its combatants did not fully realize.
*Reference & Research Book News*