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Castles of Steel: Britain, - Hardcover, by Massie Robert K. - Acceptable
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780679456711
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679456716
ISBN-13
9780679456711
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2461736
Product Key Features
Book Title
Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Number of Pages
880 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Military / World War I, Europe / Great Britain / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
44.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-041373
Reviews
Praise for Robert K. Massie's Dreadnought "Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events." -Time "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole 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 everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massie's eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative." -Los Angeles Times From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Robert K. Massie's Dreadnought "Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events."-Time "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole 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 everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massie's eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative."-Los Angeles Times
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.4/5941
Synopsis
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts-gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away-were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to "seize the trident" by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry. Castles of Steelis about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massie's special and widely hailed literary mastery.
LC Classification Number
D581.M37 2003
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