Dreadnought

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"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters." Chicago Sun-Times
In a major literary event, Robert K. Massie, author of the international bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Peter the Great, has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race.
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 the first true battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought
Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed... Tovább

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"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters." Chicago Sun-Times
In a major literary event, Robert K. Massie, author of the international bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Peter the Great, has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race.
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 the first true battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought
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. Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.
"[Told] on a grand scale Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage.' The Wall Street Journal
"Brilliant on everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massie's eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative." Los Angeles Times Vissza