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

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A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the 20 th century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie
 
With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of strange lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the one-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, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
 
Their story, and the tale of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy on this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.
 
Praise for Dreadnought
 
“Dreadnought is history within the grand manner, as the general public prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.”—Time
 
“A classic [that] covers superbly an entire 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 the whole lot he writes about ships and the sea. It’s Massie’s eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative.”—Los Angeles Times

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