Death of a Fleet 1917-1919
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1932. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 278 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads To H. O. Wells, Sincerely Yours Langhorne Gibson Dec 1932. Langhorne Gibson was a writer and son of the artist Charles Dana Gibson.
Mr. Gibson, who was an avid sailor and racer, wrote two books on naval battles of World War I, ''Death of a Fleet,'' published in 1932, and ''The Riddle of Jutland,'' published in 1934. He also worked in magazine advertising and in 1928 became a vice president of Life Magazine. Mr. Gibson served as a Navy seaman in World War I and as a lieutenant commander in charge of the Naval Intelligence Office in Richmond in World War II. He was born July 30, 1899, in Hempstead, L.I. He graduated in 1922 from Yale University, where he was captain of the varsity crew team. Born Herbert Paul Schubert in 1899, Schubert was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Connecticut, graduating with the Class of 1920 on June 6, 1919. In 1939, Schubert embarked upon a career as a radio news analyst for the Mutual Broadcasting System's WOR Radio in New York. Working for WOR during the war, as well as occasional work for the BBC and the Office of War Information, Schubert broadcast on naval and military issues throughout World War II. Schubert wrote articles for Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's, and Cosmopolitan, as well as a newspaper column in the Washington Post. Schubert was also author of the books The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio, Come On, Texas, Death of a Fleet, and Sea Power in Conflict. This work was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. The book was the first account of its kind in English, It addresses the Imperial German Kriegsmarine discontent. War-weary stokers fomented between-decks sedition in the German navy and lea a mutiny which blazed into a nationwide revolution. From the first mutinites of 1917, for which two sailors faced a firing squad, to the great drama of 1919 when the water of Scapa Flow flowed through the open sea cocks as fifth ships of the fleet were scuttled. Condition: Good / No DJ present.
Keywords: Kriegsmarine, Scapa Flow, Mutiny, Kiel; Revolution, Disarmament, Ludwig von Reuter, Karl Artlet, David Beatty, High Seas Fleet, Souchon, von Reuter, Meurer
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