Book Review: The War in the North Sea: The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914–1918

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-147
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
German Navy

Britain and Economic Warfare in German Naval Thinking in the Era of the Great War

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Seligmann
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
World War ◽  
The North ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Economic Warfare ◽  
German Navy ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Under the leadership of Alfred von Tirpitz, the German navy concentrated on building a battle fleet based in the North Sea rather than cruisers designed for operations in distant waters. This has led many historians to assume that commerce warfare (Handelskrieg) played no real part in German preparations for war against Britain before 1914. This chapter disputes this analysis. It shows that Germany’s naval planners in the Admiralstab believed that by converting merchant ships into auxiliary cruisers and using them to attack British commerce on the high seas the German navy would be able to cause considerable damage to British shipping and so force the Royal Navy to divert forces from the main theatre of war to distant oceans. It goes on to examine the reality of this plan during the First World War.

The medieval cultures of the Irish sea and the North Sea: Manannan and his neighbors [Book Review]

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
John Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Irish Sea

Review(s) of: The medieval cultures of the Irish sea and the North Sea: Manannan and his neighbors, by MacQuarrie, Charles W., and Nagy, Joseph Falaky Nagy (eds), (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019) hardcover, 212 pages, 1 map, 4 figures, RRP euro99; ISBN 9789462989399.

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