[Rarebooks] FA: Naval Predictions for 1917

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Offered to the highest bidder on a major Internet auction site this week, 
an interesting pamphlet on the Naval Prospects for the third year of WWI. 
Offered without reserve, because We Remember Belgium!

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NAVAL PROSPECTS IN 1917. By Archibald Hurd. Published in London by Eyre and 
Spottiswoode in 1917.  An interesting short pamphlet looking ahead at how 
the Naval War will go. Archibald Hurd was writing for the Daily Telegraph 
at the time, but would go on to much greater things, becoming the co-editor 
of the acclaimed 'Brassey's Naval Annual' in 1928; he also authored the 
'Official History of the Merchant Navy in the War of 1914-19', 'The Sea 
Traders' (1922), 'The Reign of the Pirates' (1925), 'The Eclipse of British 
Sea Power' (1933), 'The Battle of the Seas' (1941), and 'Britannia Has 
Wings! '(1942). He was knighted in 1928, and from 1942 to 1945 was a member 
of the Council of Institution of Naval Architects.

In this pamphlet Hurd reviews the course of the naval war to that point and 
predicts, correctly, that in the wake of Jutland, Germany's naval prospects 
are winding down- "Since the Battle of Jutland, German naval activity has 
been confined to destroyer raids in the darkness, which have achieved no 
military result...(and) the submarine campaign is doomed to failure."

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