World Crisis

About this eBook

Author

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

Title

The World Crisis, Volume 1 (of 6)

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

59794

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59794

Release Date

June 23, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WORLD CRISIS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TABLE OF MAPS
5. 5.OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE VIALS OF WRATH 1870–1904
7. 7.CHAPTER II MILESTONES TO ARMAGEDDON 1905–1910
8. 8.CHAPTER III THE CRISIS OF AGADIR 1911
9. 9.CHAPTER IV ADMIRALS ALL
10. 10.CHAPTER V THE GERMAN NAVY LAW 1912
11. 11.CHAPTER VI THE ROMANCE OF DESIGN
12. 12.CHAPTER VII THE NORTH SEA FRONT — NOTES BY THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY — NOTES BY THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY ( Address to the Admiralty War Staff ) — NOTES BY THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY ( Addressed to the First Sea Lord. ) — A. — B.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII IRELAND AND THE EUROPEAN BALANCE
14. 14.CHAPTER IX THE CRISIS July 24–July 30
15. 15.CHAPTER X THE MOBILISATION OF THE NAVY July 31–August 4
16. 16.CHAPTER XI WAR: THE PASSAGE OF THE ARMY August 4–August 22 1914
17. 17.CHAPTER XII THE BATTLE IN FRANCE August 20–September 6, 1914
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII ON THE OCEANS
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV IN THE NARROW SEAS
20. 20.CHAPTER XV ANTWERP
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI THE CHANNEL PORTS
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII THE GRAND FLEET AND THE SUBMARINE ALARM October and November, 1914
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII CORONEL AND THE FALKLANDS October, November and December, 1914
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX WITH FISHER AT THE ADMIRALTY November and December, 1914
25. 25.CHAPTER XX THE BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH AND HARTLEPOOL December 16, 1914
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI TURKEY AND THE BALKANS
27. 27.APPENDIX A MEMORANDUM BY THE FIRST LORD ON NAVAL STAFF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT — (A.)— Military Education and War Staff Training. — Military Education. — War Staff Training. — (B.)— Development of the Admiralty War Staff. — (X). Manuals and Exercises. — (Y). War Colleges: Examinations and Courses. — (Z). Historical. — (C.)— The Operations Staff Afloat.
28. 28.APPENDIX B — BRITISH DREADNOUGHT STRENGTH — GERMAN DREADNOUGHT STRENGTH — BRITISH AND GERMAN FLEETS IN HOME WATERS AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
29. 29.APPENDIX C MEMORANDUM BY THE FIRST LORD ON TRADE PROTECTION ON AND AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WAR
30. 30.APPENDIX D MINING — NOTES BY THE FIRST LORD — Ambush Mining. — Blockade Mining.
31. 31.APPENDIX E FIRST LORD’S MINUTES — ACTION OF AUGUST 28 — SEPARATION ALLOWANCES FOR THE NAVY — ENEMY RESERVISTS — LIFE-BELTS — SUBMARINE HONOURS — BLOCKADE — MUNITIONS — UNITED STATES NEUTRALITY — THE BRITISH PATROL OFF NEW YORK — ANTI-SUBMARINE MEASURES — HIGH-EXPLOSIVE PRODUCTION — THE DUMMY FLEET — THE COASTAL PATROL — THE RIFLE SHORTAGE
32. 32.INDEX
33. 33.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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