Author : Gary Staff
Release : 2008
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917 by : Gary Staff
Download or read book Battle for the Baltic Islands 1917 written by Gary Staff. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1917, despite the revolution, the Russians were still willing to continue the war against Germany. This book reveals Operation Albion, the German seaborne operation that changed their minds. The Baltic Islands were pivotal for the defence of the Finnish Gulf and the Russian capital, St. Petersburg. This campaign therefore had great importance for the war in the East, and it was only soon after the fall of the Baltic Islands that the Russians began peace negotiations (freeing hundreds of thousands of German soldiers for the Kaiser's last gamble on the Western Front)." "Gary Staff's study of arguably the most successful combined operation (by any side) of the Great War, scuttles the myth that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet achieved little after the Battle of Jutland."--BOOK JACKET.