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The Victory at Sea (Paperback)
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The Victory at Sea (Paperback)
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In 1921 Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims won the Pulitzer prize in
history for Victory at Sea. The commander of U.S. naval forces
operating in European waters during the WWI, Sims offers an
authoritative account of the U.S. Navy's role in the war. Rear
Admiral Sims explains the significance of submarine warfare, and
its role in the defeat of Germany. The U.S. Navy's campaign was
shrouded in secrecy at the time. Admiral Sims, head of the Naval
War College when WWI broke out, was a brilliant gunnery reformer
and noted Anglophile whose service in London ideally suited him to
compose this history of the naval campaigns of the Great War. He
was placed in charge of American naval forces in Europe for the
duration of the war. Sims was born of American parents in Port
Hope, Canada, 15 October 1858. Educated at Annapolis from 1876 to
1880, he first won fame as a lieutenant on duty in China in 1902.
After being rebuffed by his superiors when he made suggestions for
improvement in gunnery practice, he is reported to have gone over
their heads and claimed directly to President Theodore Roosevelt
that American gunnery was hopelessly inaccurate. Roosevelt called
him back to become inspector of naval target practice.
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