Battle of Jutland Website / Free Book

[herrmill]

For you history buffs out there, here's an interesting website that contains an illustrated book on the Battle of Jutland that you can download:

What must it be like to have been perched 60 foot above the deck of a battleship as 3-ton shells rain down around you? Join the look-out in the fore-top of HMS Neptune as the British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet clash at the Battle of Jutland.

Illustrated throughout, you will get a taste of the action as Beatty's battlecruisers lead the German High Seas Fleet into the massed guns of the battleships of the British Grand Fleet.

http://www.battle-of-jutland.com/free-jutland-book.html

The site is pretty good with some great photos I've not seen before.

Chuck

[Shaun Hendricks]

I've read many sites on this fight and even a couple of books about the actual battle, down to where rounds hit, missed, fired and misfired.

It's a fascinating naval battle and what is seriously interesting to me, all the lesson's that should have been learned by Naval Officers after it... weren't. Many of the same mistakes were repeated in various naval battles in WWII.

Assumptions are lethal.

[Predreadnut]

Well, believe it or not, theres still one man who can tell you. He is the last surviving WW1 veteran to have been in the battle of Jutland. Henry Allingham, born 1896(112years old) the oldest man in Europe, is the last person to witness the battle, although it was not from a battleship,but an auxilary ship. From what I gather, his mind is still quite good and he still attends many functions. He isnt the only World War One veteran left however, there are still 8 surviving veterans of the Great War worldwide and two more possible but not yet varified. I've been watching there numbers count down for about two years now. By my estimate, they will be all gone by 2010-12, or 96-98years after the war began.