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A 2004/10307 CASTLES OF STEEL Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea ROBERT K. MASSIE RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK Contents List of Maps xiii Chapter 1. July 1914 3 Chapter 2. "Goeben Is Your Objective" 26 Chapter 3. Jellicoe 56 Chapter 4. First Days 72 Chapter 5. Beatty 83 Chapter 6. The Battle of the Bight 97 Y Chapter 7. Submarines and Mines: "Fisher's Toys" 122 Chapter 8. "Shall We Be Here in the Morning?" 146 Chapter 9. Prince Louis Departs 163 Chapter 10. Admiral von Spee's Voyage 179 Chapter 11. Admiral Cradock's Voyage 198 Chapter 12. The Battle of Coronel 225 Chapter 13. "Very Well, Luce, We'll Sail Tomorrow" 244 Chapter 14. The Battle of the Falkland Islands 257 Chapter 15. Fisher Returns to the Admiralty 287 Chapter 16. "The Requirements of the Commander-in-Chief Were Hard to Meet" 300 Chapter 17. The Yarmouth Raid and Room 40 309 Chapter 18. The Scarborough Raid: "Within Our Claws" 319 Chapter 19. The Scarborough Raid: Hipper Escapes 337 Chapter 20. The Cuxhaven Raid: "Stupid Great Things, but Very Beautiful" 361 xii • Contents Chapter 21. The Battle of the Dogger Bank: "Kingdom Come or Ten Days' Leave" 375 Chapter 22. The Battle of the Dogger Bank: "Why Didn't You Get the Lot?" 405 ^Chapter 23. "A Demonstration at the Dardanelles" 426 Y Chapter 24. The Minefields 444 Chapter 25. The Naval Attack on the Narrows 457 \ Chapter 26. Gallipoli: The Landings 471 1 Chapter 27. "Some Corner of a Foreign Field" 492 Chapter 28. The Blockade of Germany 503 Chapter 29. Lusitania and the American Reaction 528 Chapter 30. The Eve of Jutland 553 Chapter 31. Jutland: Beatty vs. Hipper 579 Chapter 32. Jutland: Jellicoe vs. Scheer 606 Chapter 33. Jutland: Night and Morning 635 Chapter 34. Jutland: Aftermath 658 Chapter 35. America Enters the War 685 Chapter 36. The Defeat of the U-boats 715 Chapter 37. Jellicoe Leaves, Beatty Arrives, and the Americans Cross the Atlantic 739 Chapter38. Finis Germaniae 764 Notes 789 Bibliography 821 Acknowledgments 831 Index 833.

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