Victory snatched from imminent defeat
This book by the American, Admiral Sims will be a revelation to many. The British public had no idea that by the time America entered the First World War on 6th April, 1917 the Allied cause was on the brink of falling to the might of Imperial Germany. No plan had been conceived to ensure that vital materials would reach Britain by sea without them falling prey to the omnipresent U-Boat menace. Thousands of tons of essential war supplies were going to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean each week and serious Allied analysts believed that Britain would last less than four months before surrender was inevitable. Given what we now know of the great German land offensives of the final phase of the war, the consequences for the Allies, without a solution to the issue of maritime supply, could have been catastrophic. The solution came in the form of the creation of the convoy system and its effectiveness was due in no small part to the addition of the U. S. N. destroyer fleet to support the activities of the Royal Navy. This book describes how the German U-Boat threat was finally overcome and how this impacted on the Allied victory. Sims also gives much operational detail including the activities of the deadly decoy's, the 'Q' ships, and the operations of the 'King Cobras' of the undersea war-the anti-submarine submarines.' This is the view and account of a senior officer in a position to experience and describe for posterity the strategic and tactical issues of the anti U-Boat campaign and it describes in detail the many methods and types of craft employed together with anecdotes, reports and eyewitness accounts of the action on and under the waves. Recommended.
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.

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Victory snatched from imminent defeat
This book by the American, Admiral Sims will be a revelation to many. The British public had no idea that by the time America entered the First World War on 6th April, 1917 the Allied cause was on the brink of falling to the might of Imperial Germany. No plan had been conceived to ensure that vital materials would reach Britain by sea without them falling prey to the omnipresent U-Boat menace. Thousands of tons of essential war supplies were going to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean each week and serious Allied analysts believed that Britain would last less than four months before surrender was inevitable. Given what we now know of the great German land offensives of the final phase of the war, the consequences for the Allies, without a solution to the issue of maritime supply, could have been catastrophic. The solution came in the form of the creation of the convoy system and its effectiveness was due in no small part to the addition of the U. S. N. destroyer fleet to support the activities of the Royal Navy. This book describes how the German U-Boat threat was finally overcome and how this impacted on the Allied victory. Sims also gives much operational detail including the activities of the deadly decoy's, the 'Q' ships, and the operations of the 'King Cobras' of the undersea war-the anti-submarine submarines.' This is the view and account of a senior officer in a position to experience and describe for posterity the strategic and tactical issues of the anti U-Boat campaign and it describes in detail the many methods and types of craft employed together with anecdotes, reports and eyewitness accounts of the action on and under the waves. Recommended.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

1921. Volume 39 of 50. The Chronicles of America Series is dedicated to presenting the main facts surrounding American history and the interesting historical stories behind civilization in America. In the present work, the reader will find a chronicle of the captains of industry in the Age of Big Business, including the telephone, epic of steel, development of public utilities and the automobile.

1923. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766143767. Volume 2 of 2. A biographical account of the American journalist and diplomat, who, as ambassador to Great Britain, urged the United States to intervene in World War I. Walter Page was on the staff of Atlantic Monthly, the Forum and founded The World's Work. This book details Page's life from the sinking of the Lusitania to his death. Illustrated.

1928. The earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page 1855-1913. This work's purpose is to complete the biography of Water H. Page. Page's life in the United States was of great interest and great significance. It was an era that witnessed the transformation of the backward Civil War South into a progressive part of the united country and Page played an important role in this transformation. He was a partner in the publishing company of Doubleday, Page and Co. and wrote several books, some under the pseudonym Nicholas Worth. This biography takes us up to the time that Page was an ambassador to Great Britain, when he urged the United States to intervene in World War I.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact. In that year the Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled at least ninety per cent of the business of refining and marketing petroleum. A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact. In that year the Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled at least ninety per cent of the business of refining and marketing petroleum. A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.

1921. One of the great reformers in naval gunfire and employment of destroyer ships; Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European waters during World War I, Sims adopted the use of naval convoys and promoted the construction of destroyers to counter Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare. He served as President of the Naval War College in 1917 and from 1919 to 1922. Victory at Sea, his book on Anglo-American naval cooperation in the war at sea during World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1920. Contents: When Germany was Winning the War; The Return of the Mayflower; The Adoption of the Convoy; American Destroyers in Action; Decoying Submarines to Destruction; American College Boys and Subchasers; The London Flagship; Submarine Against Submarine; The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea; German Submarines Visit the American Coast; Fighting Submarines from the Air; The Navy Fighting on the Land; and Transporting Two Million American Soldiers to France.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact. In that year the Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled at least ninety per cent of the business of refining and marketing petroleum. A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.

1922. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 076617106X. Volume 1 of 2. A biographical account of the American journalist and diplomat, who, as ambassador to Great Britain, urged the United States to intervene in World War I. Walter Page was on the staff of Atlantic Monthly, the Forum and founded The World's Work. This book details Page's life from his boyhood in North Carolina through the first drives of peace by Germany.

1921. Volume 39 of 50. The Chronicles of America Series is dedicated to presenting the main facts surrounding American history and the interesting historical stories behind civilization in America. In the present work, the reader will find a chronicle of the captains of industry in the Age of Big Business, including the telephone, epic of steel, development of public utilities and the automobile.

1921. One of the great reformers in naval gunfire and employment of destroyer ships; Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European waters during World War I, Sims adopted the use of naval convoys and promoted the construction of destroyers to counter Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare. He served as President of the Naval War College in 1917 and from 1919 to 1922. Victory at Sea, his book on Anglo-American naval cooperation in the war at sea during World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1920. Contents: When Germany was Winning the War; The Return of the Mayflower; The Adoption of the Convoy; American Destroyers in Action; Decoying Submarines to Destruction; American College Boys and Subchasers; The London Flagship; Submarine Against Submarine; The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea; German Submarines Visit the American Coast; Fighting Submarines from the Air; The Navy Fighting on the Land; and Transporting Two Million American Soldiers to France.

STATESMEN OF THE LOST CAUSE JEFFERSON DAVIS And His Cabinet By BURTON J. HENDRICK Author of The Lees of Virginia and Bulwark of the Republic WITH ILLUSTRATIONS The Literary Guild of America, Inc. NEW YORK THE STARTING POINT OF THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN THE STATES INAUGURATION OF JEFFERSON DAVIS CONTENTS PROLOGUE 3 I JEFFERSON DAVIS, SOUTHERN NATIONALIST 1. A MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATION .... 12 2. THE EARLY TRAGEDY 19 3. SCHOLASTIC RECLUSE 24 4. VARINA HOWELL 34 5. STATE RIGHTS 40 6. LEADER OF SECESSION ...... 44 7. SECRETARY OF WAR ...... 51 II THE GREAT GEORGIA TRIUMVIRATE 1. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS 57 2. THE MAN WITHIN 65 3. THE TOOMBS-STEPHENS COALITION ... 69 4. ROBERT TOOMBS, UNIONIST 71 5. HOWELL COBB 75 III THE COTTON BELT SETS UP A CONFED ERACY 1. THE MONTGOMERY CONVENTION ... 85 2. DAVIS ELECTED PRESIDENT ACCIDENTALLY . . 95 3. THE CONSTITUTION FOR SECESSION . . . 100 4. THE FIRST CABINET 104 IV DIPLOMACY ON THE MEXICAN FRONT 1. RECOGNITION BY EUROPE 107 2. COLONEL JOHN PICKETT 117 3. SENOR CORWIN 125 4. FARCE IN MEXICO CITY 129 V A DIPLOMATIC DEBUT IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE 1. THE QUEST FOR RECOGNITION . . .,139 2. LORD RUSSELLS COMPLIMENTS, 150 VI THE BRAINS OF THE CONFEDERACY 1. JUDAH P, BENJAMIN 153 2. CREOLE MARRIAGE 164 3 SMILING As USUAL 169 4. BENJAMIN IN THE WAR OFFICE . . . .181 vi CONTENTS VII CONFEDERATE FINANCE L CHRISTOPHER MEMMINGER . . . .188 2. WHITE GOLD 194 3. WHITE GOLD, CONTINUED 201 4. THE COTTON FAMINE 208 VIII FRENCH BANKERS FLEECE THE CONFED ERACY 1. THE ERLANGER LOAN 216 2. SLIDELL AND BENJAMIN 222 3. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE 227 IX JAMES MURRAY MASON 1. A VIRGINIAN IN THE MAKING .... 233 2. THE VIRGINIA CLAIM TO SUPERIORITY . . . 240 3. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES .. . 247 X QUEEN VICTORIAS TWO BAD BOYS 1. LORD PALMERSTON 258 2. LORD JOHN RUSSELL 262 3. LONDON SOCIETY 267 4. THE BLOCKADE 270 5. THE MOVEMENT FOR RECOGNITION . . . 277 XI FRIENDS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE 1. JOHN SLIDELL 283 2. EXILE IN NEW ORLEANS 289 3. INTRIGUE IN PARIS 294 XII NAPOLEON III AND THE CONFEDERACY 1. A CAUTIOUS FRIEND 302 2. A LARGE BRIBE OFFERED FRANCE . . . 309 3. THE COLD SHOULDER 314 XIII THE DISCORD OF THE GOVERNORS 1. SECRETARY SEDDON 324 2. PRO-UNIONISM IN THE SOUTH .... 330 3. JOSEPH EMERSON BROWN 336 4. ZEBULON B. VANCE 342 XIV SECESSION WITHIN THE CONFEDERACY 1. AN ARMY FOR GEORGIA ..... 350 2. JOE BROWN NULLIFIES CONSCRIPTION . . . 352 3. JOE BROWNS TEN THOUSAND . . . . 358 CONTENTS vii XV MALLORYS FIGHT ON THE BLOCKADE 1. STEPHEN R. MALLORY 363 2. MEN BUT No SHIPS 369 3. THE IRONCLADS 375 XVI COMIC RELIEF L THE POST OFFICE 387 2. THE PROPAGANDA OF THE CONFEDERACY . . 389 3. THE MISSION TO THE VATICAN .... 399 XVII END OF THE DESPOT DAVIS L THE INEVITABLE SCHISM 409 2. HOSTILITY WITHIN THE CABINET . . . 414 3. A UNION MAN AT HEART . 422 4. THE FAILURE OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY . . . 429 BIBLIOGRAPHY 433 INDEX 441 ILLUSTRATIONS THE STARTING POINT OF THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN THE STATES ........ Frontispiece Inauguration of Jefferson Davis as Provisional President of the Confederate States, February 18, 1861, at the state capitol, Montgomery, Alabama JEFFERSON DAVIS OF MISSISSIPPI 1808-1889 . ... 14 Provisional and Peimanent President of the Confederate States of America BIRTHPLACE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS IN KENTUCKY . . .15 The log cabin in Christian now Todd County, Kentucky, in which Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808 THE WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.......... 15 Official residence of Mr. and Mrs. Davis during the Civil War ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS OF GEORGIA 1812-1883 . . . 76 President of the Confederate States of America ROBERT TOOMBS OF GEORGIA 1810-1885 .... 76 First Secretary of State of the Confederacy HOWELL COBB 1815-1868 ....... 77 United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury under Presi dent Buchanan and afterward a leading Secessionist in Georgia ROBERT M. T. HUNTER OF VIRGINIA 1809-1887 ... 77 Secretary of State of the Confederacy from July, 1861, to February, 1862 BENITO JUAREZ 1806-1872 ..

1921. One of the great reformers in naval gunfire and employment of destroyer ships; Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European waters during World War I, Sims adopted the use of naval convoys and promoted the construction of destroyers to counter Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare. He served as President of the Naval War College in 1917 and from 1919 to 1922. Victory at Sea, his book on Anglo-American naval cooperation in the war at sea during World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1920. Contents: When Germany was Winning the War; The Return of the Mayflower; The Adoption of the Convoy; American Destroyers in Action; Decoying Submarines to Destruction; American College Boys and Subchasers; The London Flagship; Submarine Against Submarine; The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea; German Submarines Visit the American Coast; Fighting Submarines from the Air; The Navy Fighting on the Land; and Transporting Two Million American Soldiers to France.

1921. One of the great reformers in naval gunfire and employment of destroyer ships; Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European waters during World War I, Sims adopted the use of naval convoys and promoted the construction of destroyers to counter Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare. He served as President of the Naval War College in 1917 and from 1919 to 1922. Victory at Sea, his book on Anglo-American naval cooperation in the war at sea during World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1920. Contents: When Germany was Winning the War; The Return of the Mayflower; The Adoption of the Convoy; American Destroyers in Action; Decoying Submarines to Destruction; American College Boys and Subchasers; The London Flagship; Submarine Against Submarine; The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea; German Submarines Visit the American Coast; Fighting Submarines from the Air; The Navy Fighting on the Land; and Transporting Two Million American Soldiers to France.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact. In that year the Standard Oil Company of Ohio controlled at least ninety per cent of the business of refining and marketing petroleum. A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.