Robert K. Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, Dreadnought and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. He lives in Irvington, New York
History at its best, a fantastic mix of anecdote, observation and
intelligent thinking
*Daily Express*
Massie tells the story with controlled energy and attention to
detail, especially human detail. It has not been told so well
before.
*Literary Review*
He has the supreme gift of making history live in simple, readable
language.
*Observer*
Inheritor of Barbara Tuchman's mantle as the English-speaking
world's pre-eminent popular historian...Robert K. Massie has now
turned his attention to the arms race between Britain and Germany
c.1890-1914, the most important precipitant towards the outbreak of
the First World War.
*Frank McLynn*
This is a book you are bound to enjoy. The set pieces - the naval
review of June 1897, the Jameson Raid, The Kaiser's visit to
Windsor, Winston Churchill visiting the fleet, "the spring of the
panther" - are dramatically recreated. The pen portraits of the
political and naval establishments of Wilhelmine Germany and
Victorian and Edwardian Britain are brilliantly evoked with a sharp
eye for the memorable detail...Massie keeps his complex story under
tight control...Monographers like myself can only envy the sheer
sweep of Dreadnought and the author's rich palette of colours so
deftly applied. Like Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August this is
narrative history at its very best. Financial Times
*Financial Times*
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