The Rules Of The Game Av Andrew Gordon

<p><b>Winner of the Longman''s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature</b> <br><br>More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a ''new'' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would decisively change a war''s outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916, they thought their moment had come...<br><br>Andrew Gordon''s extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious aftermath.</p>