Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series. While for many ordinary people the outbreak of war in 1914 came as a ...

Summary: A little over a century ago, the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet clashed at Jutland in a monumental battle involving fifty-eight dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, among 250 ...

During the Battle of Jutland, with shells raining down and British ships exploding in minutes, Admiral Beatty ordered a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German high command reacted to Jutland by refocusing its efforts on submarine warfare, an attempt to strangle Britain out of the war. A major victory might ...

IT was supposed to be a war-ending event. But the technologicial Battle of Jutland a century ago almost tore the Old Empire apart. In 1916, war-weary Britain was still supremely confident in the Royal ...

The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a ...

At about 4.25pm on 31 May 1916, the HMS Queen Mary, the most advanced battlecruiser in the Royal Navy, disintegrated under brutally accurate German gunfire. “First of all a vivid red flame shot up ...