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

Author: Robert K. Massie
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Head of Zeus Ltd
1992
ISBN: 0394528336
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,1 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 1007
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie 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. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, DREADNOUGHT is history at its most riveting.