Finished The Starvation Blockades: Naval Blockades of World War 1 by Nigel Hawkins.
This well written book covers the surface blockades by the RN, the Otranto Barrage and the attempts at enacting an undersea blockade of the Entente powers by Germany's U-Boat force. Hawkins demonstrates how successive (mostly British) violations of international law regarding blockades and contraband helped escalate the naval war to the German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, first in 1915 and again in 1917.
Excellent and enlightening work for anybody interested in the Great War at sea.
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