Coal Black Sea (eBook)

Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War

Stuart Heaver (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-087-3 (ISBN)

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On the morning of 22 September 1914, just six weeks into the First World War, three Royal Navy armoured cruisers were sunk by a German U-boat in the southern North Sea. The action lasted less than 90 minutes but the lives of 1,459 men and boys were lost - more than the British losses at the Battle of Trafalgar or in the sinking of RMS Lusitania. Yet, curiously, few have ever heard of the incident. The Coal Black Sea tells the extraordinary true story of the disaster from the perspectives of the men serving on HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, and the German submariners who orchestrated the attack. It also examines how the ignominious loss provoked widespread criticism of the highly ambitious First Lord of the Admiralty, the 39-year-old Winston Churchill. While the families of the victims grieved, Churchill succeeded in playing down the significance of the disaster and shifted the blame to those serving at sea to save his faltering career. Using a range of official and archival records, Stuart Heaver exposes this false narrative and corrects over a century of misinformation to honour those who lost their lives in the worst naval catastrophe of the First World War.

Former naval officer STUART HEAVER is a professional journalist and features writer with a special interest in maritime affairs and maritime history. His work has been published in The Independent, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 1914 • 1st World War • action of 22 september 1914 • andrew lambert • churchill criticism • churchill critique • first lord of admiralty • First World War • live bait squadron • maritime disaster • maritime disasters • national archives • naval disaster • Navy • North Sea • official records • Royal Navy • september 1914 • sinkings • Winston Churchill • Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War • Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War, winston churchill, world war one, world war 1, wwi, ww1, first world war, 1st world war, 1914, maritime disaster, maritime disasters, sinkings, naval disaster, september 1914, action of 22 september 1914, north sea, first lord of admiralty, royal navy, navy, live bait squadron, churchill criticism, churchill critique, andrew lambert, official records, national archives • World War 1 • World War One • WW1 • wwi
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-087-2 / 1803990872
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-087-3 / 9781803990873