Dreadnought - Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Year: 1992 Language: english Author: Massie, Robert K Performer: Grover Gardner Type: audiobook Audio codec: MP3 Audio bitrate: 41 Description: Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Massie's sweeping narrative centers around the naval rivalry between Britain and Germany after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, highlighting this as one of the major tensions that led to WW I. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This is a case study in the limits of a particular style of history. Massie's previous biographically focused narrative histories, Peter the Great ( LJ 9/15/80) and Nicholas and Alexandra ( LJ 7/67), succeeded intellectually because of the nature of autocratic decision making. The British and German systems were too complicated and too democratic to respond to a biographical focus. This massive volume, while reminding us of the importance of individuals in decision making, nevertheless ultimately misrepresents the Anglo-German rivalry as essentially a conflict of personalities. The naval race, purportedly the book's focus, is submerged in a sea of anecdotes about ministers and monarchs. Many are interesting; few are original. Moreover, neither Massie's text nor his bibliography shows significant traces of the immense body of German-language scholarship on this complex subject. Long and intricate for the general reader, this is incomplete for the serious student. Paul Kennedy's equally massive The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (Allen & Unwin, 1980) is no less well written and provides a much more comprehensive account. BOMC main selection. - D.E. Showalter, U.S. Air Force Acad., Colorado Springs
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Dreadnought - Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Language: english
Author: Massie, Robert K
Performer: Grover Gardner
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 41
Description: Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
by Robert K. Massie
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Massie's sweeping narrative centers around the naval rivalry between
Britain and Germany after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, highlighting
this as one of the major tensions that led to WW I. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This is a case study in the limits of a particular style of history.
Massie's previous biographically focused narrative histories, Peter
the Great ( LJ 9/15/80) and Nicholas and Alexandra ( LJ 7/67), succeeded
intellectually because of the nature of autocratic decision making.
The British and German systems were too complicated and too democratic
to respond to a biographical focus. This massive volume, while reminding
us of the importance of individuals in decision making, nevertheless
ultimately misrepresents the Anglo-German rivalry as essentially a conflict
of personalities. The naval race, purportedly the book's focus, is submerged
in a sea of anecdotes about ministers and monarchs. Many are interesting;
few are original. Moreover, neither Massie's text nor his bibliography
shows significant traces of the immense body of German-language scholarship
on this complex subject. Long and intricate for the general reader,
this is incomplete for the serious student. Paul Kennedy's equally massive
The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (Allen & Unwin, 1980) is no
less well written and provides a much more comprehensive account. BOMC
main selection.
- D.E. Showalter, U.S. Air Force Acad., Colorado Springs
Robert K Massie Dreadnought
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