Dreadnought by Robert K Massie

Dreadnought by Robert K Massie

A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie

With the biographer'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 B low; 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, the 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.

Praise for Dreadnought

Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.--Time

A classic that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.--Chicago Sun-Times

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

Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and went to Yale University to study American history and Oxford University to study European history as a Rhodes Scholar. From 1987 to 1991, he served as President of the Writers Guild. Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize for biography), The Romanovs: The Last Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman are among his works.

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ISBN 13	9780345375568
ISBN 10	0345375564
Title	Dreadnought
Author	Robert K Massie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1992-09-15
Number of pages	1040
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