The World Crisis: I. 1916-1918

5th Battle Squadron action Admiral Admiral Scheer Admiralty advance Allies April armour artillery Asquith attack Austrian Battle Fleet Battle of Verdun battle-cruisers battleships Beatty Beatty's British Army British Fleet Cabinet Castelnau casualties command Commander-in-Chief continued course decisive declared defeat defence deployment destroyers direction Dobruja enemy enemy's engaged Falkenhayn favourable fighting fire flotillas forces France French Army Galliéni German Fleet Government Grand Fleet guns Haig Headquarters High Sea Fleet Hindenburg Hipper Horn Reef infantry Jellicoe's Joffre Jutland kilometres light cruisers Lloyd George Lord Lord Kitchener Ludendorff Mangin manœuvre March ment miles military months nation naval Nivelle Nivelle's offensive officers operations Painlevé Pétain position Prime Minister Roumania Russian Salonica scale Scheer shell ships side Sir Douglas Sir John Jellicoe situation Somme speed Staff strength submarine success superior tactical tion Tirpitz torpedo troops turned turret U-boat Verdun victory Western Front whole wounded yards