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The Zeebrugge raid 1918: 'The finest feat of arms'
Kendall, P. (2008). The Zeebrugge raid 1918: 'The finest feat of arms'. Spellmount: Gloucestershire. ISBN 978-1-86227-477-8. 351 pp.

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    VLIZ: Belgian coast BEG.532 [100626]

Keywords
    Hedendaagse Tijd (1789-heden) > Eerste Wereldoorlog (1914-1918)
    History
    Institutionele en Politieke Geschiedenis > Nationale instellingen > Zeemacht
    Institutionele en Politieke Geschiedenis > Oorlogen en conflicten > Oorlogsvoering
    Oostende
    Belgium, Zeebrugge [Marine Regions]

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  • Kendall, P.

Abstract
    The Zeebrugge Raid was a daring mission to attempt to block the German submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsbile for sinking a third of all Allied merchant shipping during the First World War and in early 1918 there was a danger that the German submarine campaign could have starved Britain into submission. The book explores how Haig's plan to break out from the Ypres Salient and capture Bruges and the German Naval Base there was thwarted in the hellish quagmire at Passchendaele during November 1917. The Allied forces were exhausted and in no fit state to carry out a further campaign. The only hope was to block the entrance at Zeebrugge. It was therefore left to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Light Infantry in 1918 to stop the Flanders-based submarines. The raid was a suicide mission with a remote chance of surviving or returning home. With this knowledge the men who took part demonstrated great courage and fortitude, at night challenged by the tide and the German gun batteries. This book features personal accounts of those men from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Light Infantry who took part in the raid. They were ordinary men who performed extraordinary, heroic deeds.

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