Castles of steel : Britain, Germany, and the winning of the Great War at sea /
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in...
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Table of Contents:
- July 1914
- "Goeben is your objective"
- Jellicoe
- First days
- Beatty
- The Battle of the Bight
- Submarines and mines: "Fisher's toys"
- "Shall we be here in the morning?"
- Prince Louis departs
- Admiral von Spee's voyage
- Admiral Cradock's voyage
- The Battle of Coronel
- "Very well, Luce, we'll sail tomorrow"
- The Battle of the Falkland Islands
- Fisher returns to the Admiralty
- "The requirements of the commander-in-chief were hard to meet"
- The Yarmouth raid and Room 40
- The Scarborough raid: "Within our claws"
- The Scarborough raid: Hipper escapes
- The Cuxhaven raid: "Stupid great things, but very beautiful"
- The Battle of the Dogger Bank: "Kingdom come or ten days' leave"
- The Battle of the Dogger Bank: "Why didn't you get the lot?"
- "A demonstration at the Dardanelles"
- The minefields
- The naval attack on the Narrows
- Gallipoli: The landings
- "Some corner of a foreign field"
- The blockade of Germany
- Lusitania and the American reaction
- The eve of Jutland
- Jutland: Beatty vs. Hipper
- Jutland: Jellicoe vs. Scheer
- Jutland: night and morning
- Jutland: aftermath
- America enters the war
- The defeat of the U-boats
- Jellicoe leaves, Beatty arrives, and the Americans cross the Atlantic
- Finis Germaniae