Battle of Dogger Bank: The First Dreadnought Engagement, January 1915

Acknowledgments

xxiii An author’s return to ground covered at the outset of a career in many things other than history must have in that return the giftsofmanyscholarsandinstitutions.Ofthescholars,IwouldlistVolger Berghahn,KeithBird,PatrickKelly,RolfHobson,PaulKennedy,thelate Dr.GertSandhofer,thelateAntonyPreston.Oftheinstitutions,Iwould list the U.S. National Archives, the UK National Archives (late Public Record Office), the UK Ministry of Defense History Branch (Navy), the UK National Maritime Museum, the Federal German Military Archives , and the German Military History Office. Above all, I would like to acknowledge the late Professor Bryan Ranft, without whose inspiration and insight this historian would never have left the graving dock. Acknowledgments Battle of Dogger Bank This page intentionally left blank ...