PART I: Preliminary Discussions, January to April 1917, PART II: American Entry into the War, April to June 1917, PART III: General Co-operation, May 1917 to May 1919, PART IV: Anti-Submarine Warfare, April 1917 to December 1918 PART V: The Grand Fleet, June 1917 to December 1918, PART VI: The North Sea Barrage, April 1917 to November 1918, PART VII: The Mediterranean, July 1917 to February 1919, PART VIII: The Western Hemisphere, May 1917 to January 1919, PART IX Britannia, Columbia and the Struggle for Neptune's Trident, April 1917 to May 1919.
Michael Simpson was educated at Cambridge, Ohio State and Glasgow Universities and was lecturer in History and American Studies at Swansea University since 1966. He was General Editor for the Navy Records Society between 1994 and 2000.