Jutland 1916 Book review by Fred Lane Steel, N. and P. Hart. Jutland 1916: Death in the grey wastes. Cassell: London, 2003. 439pp. Photographs and Maps. Paperback $19.75. The biggest naval battle since Trafalgar in 1805 was the 1916 Battle of Jutland. Fought during 31 May and the early hours of 1 June, […]
Baghdad: First strike report (This second-hand download, datelined Saturday May 2003, is attributed to an “L. Weeks”, who is not prominent in senior US naval aviation circles. The report rings true in many respects and it reads as though written by the CO of the Prowler detachment, but it might just as well be apocryphal.) […]
Operation Sea Lion: Tiger or pussycat? Churchill’s version of Operation Sea Lion, (Churchill p. 273). Operation Sea Lion (Unternehemen Seelöwe), a proposed German invasion of England in 1940, was a battle never fought beyond its essential precursor (Unternehemen Adler, Operation Eagle Attack) that included the failed Battle of Britain. Would it have succeeded? Influential authors, […]
