06.02.2016 - By The CSICON Network
This week we finish our discussion of the Battle of Jutland on its 100th anniversary, with special guest Duncan Clark. If you haven’t listened to episode #54 yet, you’ll want to do that first to get the background and context for this engagement, one of the largest and costliest of the Great War. Be sure to visit Gordon’s blog for more details.
Show notes and links:
* Élisabeth Thible – first female balloonist (1784)
* Ford Quadricycle (1896)
* Dunkirk evacuation (June, 1940)
* ‘The Prisoner’ debuts (1968)
* 1916 Battle of Jutland – 100th Anniversary – Remember the Dead (youtube.com)
* Hannibal goes to the Alps (Lindybeige)
* Great War Diaries (TV Mini-Series 2014) (imdb.com)
* The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, by A. T. Mahan (Complete text)
* Skagerrak
* Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
* Admiral Horace Hood
* “Crossing the ‘T'”
* “Pyrrhic victory”
* Picric acid
* “Fabian victory”
* The History Files store