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

K Massie, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844135284 ISBN 13: 9781844135288

Verlag: Pimlico, 2004

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Críticas:

"History at its best, a fantastic mix of anecdote, observation and intelligent thinking" (Dan Snow Daily Express)

"Inheritor of Barbara Tuchman's mantle as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent popular historian...Robert K. Massie has now turned his attention to the arms race between Britain and Germany c.1890-1914, the most important precipitant towards the outbreak of the First World War." (Frank McLynn)

"Massie tells the story with controlled energy and attention to detail, especially human detail. It ahs not been told so well before." (Literary Review)

"He can take an enormous canvas and fill every inch with action and description." (Sunday Times)

"He has the supreme gift of making history live in simple, readable language." (Observer)

Reseña del editor:

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, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.

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• Verlag: Pimlico
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844135284
• ISBN 13: 9781844135288
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1040