The Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers. Part III.
May 30 2024
135 mins
The Riddle of the Sands enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the