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Old 07-28-2014, 04:27 PM   #47
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The featured article on Wikipedia today is on SMS Goeben (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Goeben). Today is the centenary of the start of her fabled run through the Mediterranean fleet to the Dardanelles, one of the triggering events for Turkey's entry into the war, and the subsequent Galipoli campaign.

The Goeben incident is described in

"The Great War At Sea" by Richard Hough

"Castles of Steel" by Robert K. Massie

"The First World War Volume I:To Arms" by Hew Strachan

There is an excellent description (it reads like a thriller) of Goeben's run in "The Guns of August".

"The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914" by Dan Van Der Vat describes the incident in more detail. An excellent book, but unfortunately only available as a dead tree book.
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