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Southern Thunder - The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One (Hardcover)
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Southern Thunder - The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One (Hardcover)
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During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous
and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality
but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one
another to protect their import and export trades. Germany relied
on Sweden, Norway and Denmark for food and raw materials, while
Britain needed to restrict the flow of these goods and claim them
for herself. And so the battle for the North Sea began. The
campaign was ferociously fought, with the Royal Navy forced to
develop new tactical thinking, including convoy, to combat the
U-boat threat. Many parts of Scandinavia considered that the War
had 'missed' the region, and that it was just a distant 'southern
thunder'; Much of that thunder was over the North Sea. This new
book tells this little-known, and often ignored, story from both a
naval and a political standpoint, revealing how each country,
including the USA, tried to balance the needs of diplomacy with the
necessities of naval warfare. Starting from the declaration of a
British blockade and its impact and reception in Scandinavia, the
narrative progresses to cover the struggle to prevent supplies
reaching Germany, the negotiations to gain preferential British
access to Scandinavian trade and the work of the sailors, both of
the merchant marine and Royal Navy who had to make the system
function. By the end of 1916, the British-Scandinavian trade was so
important that a new system of convoyed vessels was developed, not
without much Admiralty infighting, leading to the growth of naval
operations all along the East Coast of Britain in places such as
Immingham, Lerwick and Mehil. Two years later, the Germans,
desperate to break the tightening stranglehold, even brought out
their big-gun ships to hunt and disrupt the Scandinavian convoys,
and at one point US Navy battleships were perilously close to
engaging with the High Sea Fleet as a result. Detailed analysis and
first-hand accounts of the fighting from those who took part create
a vivid narrative that demonstrates how the Royal Navy helped to
bring about Germany's downfall and protect Britain's vital
Scandinavian supply lines.
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