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British blockade of Germany (1914–19)
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1914-19 — From Scapa Flow, Britain seals the exits of the North Sea and slowly starves the Central Powers of imports. By 1918 German civilian mortality is tens of thousands above peacetime — the blockade is the war’s slowest weapon, and one of its most decisive.
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- Blockade and U-boat war in WWI (chapter 8 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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