The Rules of the Game, Andrew Gordon
The Rules of the Game, Andrew Gordon
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The Rules of the Game
Jutland and British Naval Command

Author: Andrew Gordon, Sir John Woodward

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 27 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2020

Synopsis

When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.

Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward.

About Andrew Gordon

Andrew Gordon was the Class of '57 Distinguished Chair of Naval Heritage at the US Naval Academy from 2007-09. He has a PhD in war studies and is the author of British Sea Power and Procurement between the Wars, an acclaimed exploration of naval policy and administration in the 1920s and 1930s.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on March 07, 2019

One of the best accounts I have read that truly explains why the Battle of Jutland unfolded as it did. It covers all the technical and human aspects of the action, as good military history should, but then adds a whole new dimension. Gilbert plunges into the backgrounds of the main protagonists and......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on July 11, 2023

The Failed Test. Following Admiral Viscount Nelson’s stunning victory at the The Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Cadiz in 1805, the Royal Navy had unprecedented command of the oceans and prestige few organisations have been able to emulate. What followed was 111 years of coasting, stuffiness and......more

Goodreads review by Rick on February 20, 2020

“The Rules of the Game” by Andrew Gordon is a deconstruction of the great 1916 naval battle between the Grand Fleet of England and the High Seas Fleet of Germany near Jutland in the North Sea. At the time, this battle was shaping up as the pivotal moment for World War I naval activities. Although th......more

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