Dreadnought - by Robert K Massie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nicholas and Alexandra and Peter the Great--a grand, sweeping chronicle of the coming of World War I. Massie's masterwork is a gripping narrative that brilliantly illuminates the personal rivalries and twisted ambitions that plunged Europe into a war of unprecedented carnage. 16 pages of photographs; maps.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie</b> <p/> With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-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. <i>Dreadnought</i>. <p/> 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, <i>Dreadnought</i> is history at its most riveting. <p/> <b>Praise for <i>Dreadnought</i></b> <p/> "<i>Dreadnought</i> is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events."<b>--<i>Time</i></b> <p/> "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."<b>--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b> <p/> "[Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage."<b>--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/> "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."<b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Dreadnought</i> is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events."<b>--<i>Time</i></b> <p/> "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."<b>--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b> <p/> "[Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage."<b>--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/> "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."<b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert K. Massie </b>was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include <i>Nicholas and Alexandra; Peter the Great: His Life and World </i>(for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography)<i>; The Romanovs: The Final Chapter;</i> <i>Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War; Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea; </i>and<i> Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.</i>
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