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The Rules of the Game: Jutland and the British Naval Command is a 1996 book by Dr. Andrew Gordon.

Page	Quote	Critique
p. 7	"A senior officer's little joke."	How does he know that Captain Arthur Craig was joking?
p. 10	"Fisher was still loath to be diverted from his super-cruiser concept."	Reading far too much into Ruddock Mackay, Fisher of Kilverstone.
p. 12	Topic of fire control.	Gordon reveals his complete ignorance of fire control.
p. 13	Criticising battlecruisers "would have injured his professional prospects."	Carlyon Bellairs can hardly be called an expert on the career prospects of the Royal Navy.
p. 17	Jellicoe "as a small alert-looking man with a large nose and a rather yellow complexion."	Gordon deliberately chose the more insulting of Lorimer's two descriptions of Jellicoe. He could have chosen the far more revealing "He is an alert active-looking man. His responsibilities don't seem to weigh too heavily on him."
p. 33	"Malice born of envy and frustration" in relation to opinions of Beatty.	It is certainly not for Gordon to speculate as to the reasons these people had such contempt for Beatty.
p. 35	Jellicoe: "(having little interest in history.")	Doesn't account for Jellicoe's close friendship with Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, and rather more importantly for Jellicoe's foreward to The English Navy in the Revolution of 1688.

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