Description
On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted by a decoded radio intercept. The ensuing battle would prove to be the largest and longest surface engagement until the Battle of Jutland the following summer. While the Germans lost an armored cruiser with heavy loss of life and Hipper's flagship was almost sunk, confusion in executing orders allowed the Germans to escape. The British considered the battle a victory; but the Germans had learned important lessons and they would be better prepared for the next encounter with the British fleet at Jutand. Tobias Philbin's Battle of Dogger Bank provides a keen analytical description of the battle and its place in the naval history of World War I.
Author: Tobias R. Philbin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 03/10/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780253011695
ISBN10: 0253011698
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- History | Military | Naval
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
About the Author
Tobias R. Philbin is Adjunct Professor of Information Assurance at the University of Maryland and is author of Admiral von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero and The Lure of Neptune: German-Soviet Naval Collaboration and Ambitions, 1919-1941.