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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nicholas and Alexandra returns with a sequel to Dreadnought that is imposing in both size and quality, taking the British and German battle fleets through WWI. The fluent narrative begins amid the diplomatic crisis of July 1914 and ends with the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919. Massie makes a coherent if long narrative out of a sequence of events familiar to students of naval history but probably not to many other potential readers. The focus is on the two fleets that confronted each other across the North Sea, their weapons and tactics and their complex and controversial leaders, both military and political. As in his other books, the author describes his cast of characters with the vividness of a novelist, British Admiral Beatty's disastrous marriage being a painful case in point. What emerges from that focus is not only a number of outstanding battle narratives (Jutland is only the most famous), but a closely argued case for the German fleet having been a disaster for its country's war effort. Once built, the High Seas Fleet made war with England and the blockade of Germany inevitable. Unable to break the blockade with that expensive fleet, Germany felt compelled to choose between a negotiated peace and unrestricted submarine warfare. Once the Germans chose the latter course, American intervention and disaster become nearly unavoidable. It may seem odd to describe a book of this size as an "introduction," but readers will soon understand that the size of the topic requires a long narrative. "Castles of steel" was Winston Churchill's grand phrase for the Grand Fleet and its German counterpart, and this unusually fine military narrative lives up to it as well.

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	History/Military Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert Massie Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert MassieRandom House \| October 2003 \| ISBN: 0679456716 \| 880 Pages \| HTML & Pics in RAR \| 1,9 MbFrom Publishers WeeklyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of N ...
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	History/Military Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert Massie Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert MassieRandom House \| October 2003 \| ISBN: 0679456716 \| 880 Pages \| HTML & Pics in RAR \| 1,9 MbFrom Publishers WeeklyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of N ...
	Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at SeaPublisher: \| 2004-11-02 \| ISBN: 0345408780 \| HTML \| 880 pages \| 1.9 MBIn a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid sce ...
	History/Military Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union Stephanie C. Salzmann, "Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union: Rapallo and after, 1922-1934 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series)"Publisher: Royal Historical Society \| 200 \| ISBN 0861932609 \| PDF \| 224 pages \| 1.3 M ...
	History/Military Dreadnought; Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War - Massie (1991) Robert K. Massie, "Dreadnought; Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War"Random House \| 1991 \| ISBN: 0394528336 \| 1054 pgs. \| PDF \| 120MB, 120MBThe author of the best-seller Nicholas and Alexandra and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pet ...
	Economics/Finances Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)Publisher: Indiana University Press \| ISBN: 0253343135 \| edition 2004 \| PDF \| 232 pages \| 1,17 mbAs ...
	History/Military Endgame For The West In Afghanistan? Explaining the Decline in Support for the War in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany Charles A. Miller, "Endgame for the West in Afghanistan? Explaining the Decline in Support for the War in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France, and Germany"Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. A ...

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