The Dover Patrol, which brought together an assortment of vessels ranging from the modern to the antique and included cruisers, monitors, destroyers, trawlers, drifters, yachts, and airships, was commanded by a series of radical and polarizing personalities and increasingly manned by citizen volunteers. Between 1914 and 1918 the men of the Patrol sought to shut down German access to the Atlantic via the narrows of the English Channel, with the goal of preventing German-bound trade going in and U-boats, commerce raiders, and warships coming out. Their story has rarely been told, but it was the...
The Dover Patrol, which brought together an assortment of vessels ranging from the modern to the antique and included cruisers, monitors, destroyers, ...
A superb narrative of a forgotten campaign. Contains vivid first-hand eyewitness accounts. Published to coincide with the anniversaries of the Treaty signings of 1920.
A superb narrative of a forgotten campaign. Contains vivid first-hand eyewitness accounts. Published to coincide with the anniversaries of the Treaty ...
