From Heligoland to Keeling Island

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Excerpt from From Heligoland to Keeling Island: One Hundred Days of Naval War Probably nine out of ten people in the United Kingdom believed that a war between ourselves and Germany would be marked in its earliest days by a naval battle in the North Sea in which the British Fleet, though suffering some loss - probably heavy loss - would be victorious, and that the whole business, so far as the sea was concerned, would then be practically at an end. No naval battle has occurred. To students of naval history this apparent inactivity of the naval forces of the two countries has occasioned no surprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.