**Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First
World War.
**
On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off
Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination
of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and
expectations on both sides were high. For the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet,
there was the chance to win another Trafalgar. For the German High Seas
Fleet, there was the opportunity to break the British blockade and so
change the course of the war. But Jutland was a confused and
controversial encounter. Tactically, it was a draw; strategically, it
was a British victory.
Naval historians have pored over the minutiae of Jutland ever since. Yet
they have largely ignored what the battle was actually like for its
thousands of participants. Full of drama and pathos, of chaos and
courage, JUTLAND, 1916 describes the sea battle in the dreadnought era
from the point of view of those who were there.