Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth centuryâ€™s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie
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With the biographerâ€™s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von BÃ¼low; Britainâ€™s greatest twentieth-century foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British navy and brought forth the first true battleship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
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Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic,Â Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.
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Praise for Dreadnought
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â€œDreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.â€â€”Time
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â€œA classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.â€â€”Chicago Sun-Times
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â€œ[Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal
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â€œBrilliant on everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massieâ€™s eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative.â€â€”Los Angeles Times
Country USA
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-06-27
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780307819932

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-06-27
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9780307819932

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

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