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Dreadnought Britian Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Massie Soft Cover
Dreadnought Britian Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Massie
Dreadnought Britain Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Robert K. Massie
Soft Cover Notice the front cover has a piece missing from the lower right edge
1007 Pages
Copyright 1991
Contents
TRAFALGARXiii
INTRODUCTION: SEA POWERXVil
Part I: The German Challenge
CHAPTER 1 Victoria and Bertie3
CHAPTER 2 Vicky and Willy23
CHAPTER 3 "Blood and Iron"47
CHAPTER 4 Bismarck's Grand Design76
CHAPTER 5 The New Course: Kaiser William II, Caprivi, and Hohenlohe
CHAPTER 6 "The Monster of the Labyrinth"123
CHAPTER 7 Billow and Weltmacht134
CHAPTER 8 "Ships of My Own"150
CHAPTER 9 Tirpitz and the German Navy Laws16o
Part II: The End of Splendid Isolation
CHAPTER 10 Lord Salisbury189
CHAPTER 11 The Jameson Raid and the Kruger Telegram213
CHAPTER 12 "Joe"232
CHAPTER 13 Fashoda247
CHAPTER 14 Samoa and William's Visit to Windsor257
CHAPTER 15 The Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion271
CHAPTER 16 The "Khaki Election" and the Death of
Queen Victoria288
CHAPTER 17 The End of Anglo-German Alliance
Negotiations304
CHAPTER 18 Arthur Balfour310
CHAPTER 19 Joseph Chamberlain and Imperial
Preference325
CHAPTER 20 Lord Lansdowne and the Anglo-French
Entente337
CHAPTER 21 The Morocco Crisis of 1905351
Part III: The Navy
CHAPTER 22 From Sail to Steam373
CHAPTER 23 Jacky Fisher401
CHAPTER 24 Ut Veniant Omnes433
CHAPTER 25 First Sea Lord459
CHAPTER 26 The Building of the Dreadnought468
CHAPTER 27 Lord Charles Beresford498
CHAPTER 28 Fisher Versus Beresford511
Part IV: Britain and Germany: Politics and Growing Tension, 1906-1910
CHAPTER 29 Campbell-Bannerman: The Liberals Return
to Power547
CHAPTER 30 The Asquiths, Henry and Margot567
CHAPTER 31 Sir Edward Grey and Liberal
Foreign Policy581
CHAPTER 32 The Anglo-Russian Entente and
the Bosnian Crisis594
CHAPTER 33 The Navy Scare of 19096o9
CHAPTER 34 Invading England626
CHAPTER 35 The Budget and the House of Lords64o
CHAPTER 36 The Eulenburg Scandal663
CHAPTER 37 The Daily Telegraph Interview68o
CONTENTSxl
CHAPTER 38 Naval Talks and Bethmann-Hollweg696
Part V: The Road to Armageddon
CHAPTER 39 Agadir715
CHAPTER 40 "I Do Believe That I Am a Glowworm"744
CHAPTER 41 Churchill at the Admiralty768
CHAPTER 42 The Haldane Mission790
CHAPTER 43 Naval Estimates and a "Naval Holiday"818
CHAPTER 44 "The Anchors Held. . . . We Seemed
to Be Safe"838
CHAPTER 45 The Coming of Armageddon: Berlin854
CHAPTER 46 The Coming of Armageddon: London878
APPENDIX910
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS913
BIBLIOGRAPHY915
NOTES923
INDEX 981
With Dreadnought, Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great and Castles of Steel, 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.
With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittering figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Billow; 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 story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.
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