User:Simon Harley/The Rules of the Game
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe Rules of the Game: Jutland and the British Naval Command is a 1996 book by Dr. Andrew Gordon.
Critique
| Page | Quote | Critique |
|---|---|---|
| p. 7 | "A senior officer's little joke." | How does he know that Captain Arthur Craig was joking? |
| p. 10 | "Fisher was still loath to be diverted from his super-cruiser concept." | Reading far too much into Ruddock Mackay, Fisher of Kilverstone. |
| p. 12 | Topic of fire control. | Gordon reveals his complete ignorance of fire control. |
| p. 13 | Criticising battlecruisers "would have injured his professional prospects." | Carlyon Bellairs can hardly be called an expert on the career prospects of the Royal Navy. |
| p. 17 | Jellicoe "as a small alert-looking man with a large nose and a rather yellow complexion." | Gordon deliberately chose the more insulting of Lorimer's two descriptions of Jellicoe. He could have chosen the far more revealing "He is an alert active-looking man. His responsibilities don't seem to weigh too heavily on him." |
| p. 33 | "Malice born of envy and frustration" in relation to opinions of Beatty. | It is certainly not for Gordon to speculate as to the reasons these people had such contempt for Beatty. |
