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Distant Victory is an examination of the great sea fight at Jutland that is more than a mere balance sheet of ships sunk and lives lost, or an account of which fleet fled before the other. Rather, it is an a retelling of the battle that reveals its long-term consequences set in motion by the decisions both the Germans and the British made as a result of each fleet's experience at Jutland. While the German High Seas Fleet could claim a tactical victory because it sank more ships and inflicted higher casualties on the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet than the British did to the Germans, the British could rightly claim that strategically they won the battle, for when it was over the German warships had retreated to the safety of their harbors, having failed in their objective of defeating the Grand Fleet in detail.
For the past nine decades the Battle of Jutland has been history's most hotly debated and least understood naval action. Treated usually as a tactical German victory or else as a draw, and dismissed as strategically indecisive, it has been remembered by historians as for its lost opportunities, mistakes, and sheer scale, the largest naval surface action ever fought and the greatest clash of battleships the world would ever see. The Battle of Jutland has never been seen as one of the decisive battles of the First World War.
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
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