Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENT vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. I. The German "Dry-Land" Plan of War 3
5. II. Control of the Seas at the Beginning of the World War 17
6. III. The Distribution of Naval Forces 24
7. IV. The Outbreak of War 43
8. V. First Naval Movements throughout the World 53
9. VI. Naval Strategy at the Beginning of Hostilities. Escape of the Goeben and Breslau to Constantinople 66
10. VII. The Far East, August 1914 91
11. VIII. Transporting the British Expeditionary Force. The Action in the Heligoland Bight 101
12. IX. The Mediterranean and the Outlying Seas 120
13. X. Loss of the Belgian Coast. Lord Fisher in the British Admiralty 140
14. XI. The Battle of Coronel 158
15. XII. The New Naval Situation and the Battle of the Falkland Islands 177
16. XIII. Changes of Naval Strategy 207
17. XIV. GERMAN NAVAL RAIDS. THE DOGGER BANK CHASE 223
18. XV. THE DARDANELLES PROJECT 240
19. XVI. THE DARDANELLES. FIRST NAVAL ATTACKS 253
20. XVII. THE DARDANELLES. FINAL DEFEAT OF NAVAL ATTACKS 274
21. APPENDICES
22. A. Tables showing Initial Naval Forces of the Powers 288
23. Β. Letter of Admiral Jellicoe to the Admiralty 315
24. C. Development of the Blockade of the Confederacy in the Civil War (1861-1865) 320
25. D. Vice-Admiral Carden's Plan for the Reduction of the Dardanelles by Naval Forces Alone 323
26. E. Table of Dates of the World War 327
27. Index 337