The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

by G. A. H. Gordon, Andrew Gordon other copies of this book

Description: Very Good. Some wear to dust jacket, inside book in very good condition. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled. read more

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

by G. A. H. Gordon And Andrew Gordon other copies of this book

Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 155750718X. A sharp copy! ; 2.25 x 9.75 x 6.5 Inches; 708 pages; Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described ... read more

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

by Gordon, Andrew [I. E. Gilbert Andrew Hugh] other copies of this book

Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 155750718X. Xii, 708 pages, 8 plates, diagrams, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "The Battle of Jutland became an enduring source of controversy not so much over the outcome but rather over the handling of the much superior British fleet. There had clearly been important failures of communication and command. This book explores those failures, revealing their origin in conflicting styles of command and different understandings of the rules of the ... read more

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

by G. A. H. Gordon other copies of this book

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