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Post by Administrator on Jul 24, 2018 18:05:52 GMT
THE MERCHANT NAVY
Vol. I
BY ARCHIBALD HURDMistaken conception of the Merchant Navy - Traditions and romance - Significance of sea power - Growth of the world's war fleets - Influence of the steam-engine - Responsibilities of merchant shipping on the outbreak of war . LINK
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Post by Administrator on Jul 24, 2018 18:09:31 GMT
THE MERCHANT NAVY Vol. II
Summer 1915 to early 1917 HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS BY DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE LINK
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Post by Administrator on Jul 24, 2018 18:16:08 GMT
THE MERCHANT NAVY
Vol. III
BY ARCHIBALD HURDWITH A FOREWORD BY H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES MASTER OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS A Modern Introduction. Up-to-date, well-researched naval histories have an important part to play in understanding past events, but I would like to suggest they are equalled by contemporary accounts written not long after the stories they describe, and often by those who took part. Such near-contemporary accounts include the three volumes of THE MERCHANT NAVY by Sir Archibald Hurd. They remain in print, but are still not widely known, and being out-of-copyright, can be found on the internet. They are indispensable to any researcher or scholar of World War 1 who wants to start to understand the vastness of the war at sea and its near fatal impact on British, Allied and Neutral merchant shipping. In reading these volumes, I am surprised how partisan the accounts are. The Germans are still the Hun, but then the U-boat war totally changed the rules of "civilized" mercantile warfare that had reigned for centuries. The shock had still not subsided when these books were written. Any transcription and proofing errors are mine. Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net LINK
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