Notes
1. The most obvious exceptions to this being Paul Halpern's Naval history of World War I and Avner Offer's The First World War: an agrarian interpretation.
2. Examples include Cobb, Preparing for the blockade; Lambert, Planning Armageddon; and Seligmann, The Royal Navy and the German threat.
3. Watson, Ring of steel.
4. Marder, From dreadnought to Scapa Flow.
5. Redford and Grove, The Royal Navy: a history since 1900.
6. Corbett, Some principles of maritime strategy.