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

by Robert K. Massie.


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  tragedy in  his powerful  narrative. Intimately
human and dramatic, DREADNOUGHT is history at its most riveting.


Biography
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Robert Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great,
Nicholas  and  Alexandra,  Dreadnought  and The  Romanovs:  The  Final
Chapter. He lives in Irvington, New York.
 
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