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

Massie, Robert K.

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ISBN 10: 0345375564 ISBN 13: 9780345375568

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1992

Riassunto

A look at the events leading up to World War II discusses such figures as Churchill, Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, Sir Edward Grey, Jacky Fisher, and others. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

Robert K. Massie 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 Nicholas and Alexandra; Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography); The Romanovs: The Final Chapter; Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War; Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea; and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0345375564
• ISBN 13: 9780345375568
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1040