REFERENCES
The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916, Admiral Viscount Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, 1919.
The German High Seas Fleet in the World War, Vice Admiral von Scheer, 1920.
The Battle of Jutland, Commander Carlyon Bellairs, M. P., 1920.
The Naval Annual, 1919, Earl Brassey.
A Description of the Battle of Jutland, Lieut. Commander H. H. Frost, U. S. N., in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, vol. 45, pp. 1829 ff, 2019 ff; vol. 46, pp. 61 ff.
The British Navy in Battle, A. H. Pollen, 1919.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE WORLD WAR [Continued]: COMMERCE WARFARE
Interdiction of enemy trade has always been the great weapon of sea power; and hence, though mines, submarines, and the menace of the High Seas Fleet itself made a close blockade of the German coast impossible, Great Britain in the World War steadily extended her efforts to cut off Germany's intercourse with the overseas world. Germany, on the other hand, while unwilling or unable to take the risks of a contest for surface control of the sea, waged cruiser warfare on British and Allied commerce, first by surface vessels, and, when these were destroyed, by submarines. In the policies adopted by each belligerent there is an evident analogy to the British blockade and the French commerce destroying campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. And just as in the earlier conflict British sea power impelled Napoleon to a ruinous struggle for the domination of Europe, so in the World War, though in a somewhat different fashion, the blockade worked disaster for Germany.