More about the book
With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittering figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain's greatest twentieth-century Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British Navy and brought forth for the first true battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstanding, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, <i>Dreadnought</i> is history at its most riveting.
Book purchase
Dreadnought, Robert K. Massie
- Language
- Released
- 2004
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €8.49
Payment methods
No one has rated yet.
- Title
- Dreadnought
- Subtitle
- Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert K. Massie
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 1007
- ISBN10
- 1844135284
- ISBN13
- 9781844135288
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Germany, Military Fiction, 20th century, Wars, Europe, Great Britain, History of Europe, World War I (1914–1918)
- Description
- With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittering figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain's greatest twentieth-century Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British Navy and brought forth for the first true battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstanding, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, <i>Dreadnought</i> is history at its most riveting.