Live Bait: A Sailor, his Family, and the Epic Chronicles of HMS Defence, before and during the First World War and the Battle of Jutland

May 31, 1916, 'The Battle of Jutland,' the battle that changed the destiny of the First World War. When the allies won that devastating sea battle, Austro-German world war domination was compromised. This is the true account of how they were able to chase the Kaiser's unsinkable battle fleet back home, to stay, for the remainder of the war.
- Now, in centennial memoriam and after more than five years of extensive research, compiled from volumes of facts, personal accounts and family recollections, this revealing work has developed into an extraordinary book. 'Live Bait' is a must-read for any historian and anyone interested in a serious, important, personal glimpse into the harsh realities of war at sea, and at home. Now you can step into the past, into one of the most amazing, true, underdog adventures of the twentieth century.
- You will discover that for Bill and his shipmates, the madness began even before the war, on the Mediterranean Sea. There, although the many powerful German and Austrian warships rendered their Defence far outgunned and underprotected, they were ordered to lead the fleet. Consequently, when the war broke out, their commanders allowed a German battlecruiser to escape to Constantinople. This was a contributing factor resulting in the enormous and devastating 'Gallipoli Campaign.' How did the ship's crew deal with that humiliating embarrassment, and did they redeem themselves?
- Yes, they did, on that fateful day in May, on a windswept, cold and cruel North Sea, as 251 dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers and destroyers, with 100,000 sailors, marines and civilians, engaged in the most destructive, most decisive, sea battle of the 'Great War.' Once again, out in front, as 'Live Bait,' it was the old obsolete flagship cruiser, HMS Defence, that led the British Grand Fleet, and this time, finally, into action with the infamous, unsinkable, German High Seas Fleet. Their gallant actions allowed the British fleet to alter that violent, disastrous course of history, which allowed the allies to change the map of Europe and the world as we know it today.