Jim Ring

Documentary film producer, author and naval historian Jim Ring explains how the Royal Navy was key to Britain’s survival during World War I and how it played a critical role in ultimate victory.

The war at sea is often forgotten in the stories of the great land battles of Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele. Ring looks at the relative role of land and sea forces in 14 turning points in the war, including Lloyd George’s imposition of a convoy system, and the arrival of submarines and the mine. And he takes a critical look at the decision-making of military leaders including of Ludendorff, Churchill, Haig, Kitchener, Foch, Fisher and Jellicoe.

Ring is author of a number of books including Erskine Childers, winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, and We Come Unseen: The Untold Story of Britain’s Cold War Submariners, winner of the Mountbatten Prize.