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The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It
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Title: The Silent Watchers
England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It
Author: Bennet Copplestone
Release Date: March 15, 2015 [eBook #48497]
Language: English
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THE SILENT WATCHERS
By the Same Author
THE LOST NAVAL PAPERS
A series of exciting stories which reveal
the English Secret Service as it really
is—silent, unsleeping, and supremely
competent.
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delight. If Mr. Bennet Copplestone’s intriguing
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in popularity by the inscrutable William
Dawson.”—Daily Telegraph.
$1.50 Net
JITNY AND THE BOYS
“The book is full of the thoughts which make
us proud to-day and help us to face to-morrow.
Yes, ‘Jitny’ has my blessing.”—Punch.
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—Daily Chronicle.
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New York—E. P. Dutton & Company
THE
Silent Watchers
England’s Navy during the Great War:
What It Is, and What We Owe to It
By
BENNET COPPLESTONE
AUTHOR OF
“THE LOST NAVAL PAPERS”
“The Navy is a matter of machines only in
so far as human beings can only achieve material
ends by material means. I look upon the ships and
the guns as secreted by the men just as a tortoise
secretes its shell.”—Prologue.
New York
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright, 1918
By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
First Printing, Sept., 1918
Second Printing, Oct., 1918
Printed in the United States of America
NOTE
Between June, 1916, and February, 1918, I
contributed a good many articles and sketches on
Naval subjects to The Cornhill Magazine. They
were not designed upon any plan or published
in any settled sequence. As one article led up
to another, and information came to me from my
generously appreciative readers (many of whom
were in the Service), I revised those which I had
written and ventured to write still more. This
book contains my Cornhill articles—revised and
sometimes re-written in the light of wider information
and kindly criticism—and several additional
chapters which have not previously been published
anywhere. I have endeavoured to weave into a
connected series articles and sketches which were
originally disconnected, and I have introduced
new strands to give strength to the fabric. Through
the whole runs a golden thread which I have
called The Secret of the Navy.
B. C.
March, 1918.