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The Victory At Sea

By William Sowden Sims & Burton J. Hendrick

2020-04-06 23:04:53

In 1921 Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims won the Pulitzer Prize in history for Victory at Sea. The commander of U.S. naval forces operating in European waters during the WWI, Sims offers an authoritative account of the U.S. Navy's role in the war. Re ... Read more
In 1921 Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims won the Pulitzer Prize in history for Victory at Sea. The commander of U.S. naval forces operating in European waters during the WWI, Sims offers an authoritative account of the U.S. Navy's role in the war. Rear Admiral Sims explains the significance of submarine warfare and its role in the defeat of Germany. The U.S. Navy's campaign was shrouded in secrecy at the time. Admiral Sims, head of the Naval War College when WWI broke out, was a brilliant gunnery reformer and noted Anglophile whose service in London ideally suited him to compose this history of the naval campaigns of the Great War. He was placed in charge of American naval forces in Europe for the duration of the war. Less

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File size775.784 KB
Print pages428
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1885852274
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