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Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage

Steve R. Dunn

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Description:Formidable is the third in a trilogy of naval history books by Steve Dunn in which he unpicks the far-reaching effects of the social and political climate under which the First World War began – a period that he calls ‘Vicwardian’. The stifling atmosphere of rigid social hierarchy, pointless deference, and refusal to update rules of engagement that were largely unchanged since Nelson led, Dunn argues, to defective decision making and, ultimately, disaster.Formidable sailed to her doom under a vice admiral who did not accept the threat posed by new technology – submarines, the U-boats. The accepted rules of war were such that to ambush a battleship unseen, from below the surface, would be ungentlemanly and therefore unthinkable. To seek shelter in bad weather, whatever the threat from U-boats, would be unmanly. The vice admiral kept his ships at sea. As a result, a major ship of the British navy’s battle fleet was lost and 583 men and boys met their deaths.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage. To get started finding Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 235

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Book Guild

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1910508152

Description: Formidable is the third in a trilogy of naval history books by Steve Dunn in which he unpicks the far-reaching effects of the social and political climate under which the First World War began – a period that he calls ‘Vicwardian’. The stifling atmosphere of rigid social hierarchy, pointless deference, and refusal to update rules of engagement that were largely unchanged since Nelson led, Dunn argues, to defective decision making and, ultimately, disaster.Formidable sailed to her doom under a vice admiral who did not accept the threat posed by new technology – submarines, the U-boats. The accepted rules of war were such that to ambush a battleship unseen, from below the surface, would be ungentlemanly and therefore unthinkable. To seek shelter in bad weather, whatever the threat from U-boats, would be unmanly. The vice admiral kept his ships at sea. As a result, a major ship of the British navy’s battle fleet was lost and 583 men and boys met their deaths.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage. To get started finding Formidable: A True Story of Disaster and Courage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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