rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Clash of fleets
    sub title: naval battles of the Great War, 1914-18
  name:
    name part: O'Hara, Vincent P.
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Heinz, Leonard R.
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more than a catalog of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explores why battles occurred, how the different navies fought and how combat advanced doctrine and affected the development and application of technology. The result is a holistic overview of the war at sea as it affected all nations and all theaters of war. A work of this scope is unprecedented. Organized into seven chapters, the authors first introduce the technology, weapons, ships and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914. The next five chapters explore each year of the war and are subdivided into sections corresponding to major geographic areas. This arrangement allows the massive sweep of action to be presented in a structured and easy to follow format that includes engagements fought by the Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Ottoman and Russian Navies in the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Mediterranean and North Seas as well as the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The role of surface combat in the Great War is analyzed and these actions are compared to major naval wars before and after. In addition to providing detailed descriptions of actions in their historical perspectives, O'Hara and Heinz advance several themes, including the notion that World War I was a war of navies as much as a war of armies. They explain that surface combat had a major impact on all aspects of the naval war and on the course of the war in general. Finally, Clash of Fleets illustrates that systems developed in peace do not always work as expected in war, that some are not used as anticipated, and that others became unexpectedly important. There is much for today's naval professional to consider in the naval conflict that occurred a century ago.
  table of contents: The Fleets -- 1914 : Trial by Fire -- 1915 : No End in Sight -- 1916 : In Search of a Solution -- 1917 : The Struggle Continues -- 1918 : Winding Down -- Summing Up -- Appendix 1: Ship Specifications -- Appendix 2: Conversions and Abbreviations -- Appendix 3: Les Petit Combats.
  note: Vincent P. O'Hara and Leonard R. Heinz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Naval operations
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: Naval
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: World War I
  classification: D580 .O35 2017
  classification: 940.4/5
  identifier: 9781682470084
  identifier: 1682470083
  identifier: 9781682470190
  identifier: 2016054316
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161125
    record change date: 20170926120202.0
    record identifier: in00003870230