num_pages: 708
description: 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 operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.
language: English
title: The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Navel Command
titlecomplete: The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Navel Command
characters: Arthur Wilson, Horatio Nelson, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Albert Hastings Markham, George Tryon, Franz von Hipper, Reinhard Scheer, Philip Howard Colomb, Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, William Goodenough, Winston Churchill, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, George V of the United Kingdom, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield
genres: 20th Century, Military Fiction, History, World War I, Maritime, War, Naval History, Military History, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 372
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature
publisher: Naval Institute Press