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

WWI Biographies

Author: Robert K. Massie

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 Bülow; Britain’s greatest twentieth-century Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccent….Read More

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