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Monographs resulting from my main personal
research into the British Merchant Service during the Great War 1914-19 ...
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Internment of Enemy Aliens in Great
Britain, within the Empire and at Sea during 1914 |
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This arose out of research into British merchant mariners marooned in Germany in the autumn of 1914. In the course of these studies I began to realise that their plight had been made materially worse by the British State. Partly in comparison, but also out of curiosity, I then started looking at how German civilians in Britain had been treated during these same months. Something that has almost entirely been written out of British accounts of this conflict, I soon realised why. The see-sawing policies of the Home Office and War Office not only were far from reasonably thought out, were utterly shambolic and almost comic in operation. And, there were darker wishes of elements within the War Office - M.I.5. in particular. But, the activities of the Admiralty and Royal Navy were downright malevolent in the cynical breaking of International Law. At least one incident was literally an act of piracy. This is not a tale of the British at their best. |
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A5 |
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40 including appendices and index |
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£7.50 |
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An Embarrassing Loss - H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser Oceanic 8th September 1914 |
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Originally the loss of Oceanic, one time luxurious passenger liner of the White Star Line and latterly Armed Merchant Cruiser in naval service was only going to take up a paragraph or so in the book. All the published accounts led back to one officer onboard. He was Charles Lightoller, better known as the senior survivor of the Titanic. Taken uncritically by these commentators, I became more than slightly suspicious of his version of events. Although the navigator's log and a handful of other operational records are available for study, saliently the courts-martial papers are not. Nevertheless, reported on in the press I have managed to largely work out what actually brought this beautiful ship onto the only shallow area of water in a very large area. Not only were there a series of mistakes made onboard, but the courts-martial would seem to have been a sham. In effect the investigation and actions taken by the Royal Navy, in my opinion, were less than worthy of respect. |
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A4 |
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34 including postscripts |
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Five |
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£13.50 |
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£14.00 |
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