THE GREAT NAVAL RACE: ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL RIVALRY, 1900-1914

Padfield, Peter

ISBN 10: 0679504729 / ISBN 13: 9780679504726

Published by David McKay Company, Inc, New York, 1974

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Octavo, 382 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine royal blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$11.95". Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1385756. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GREAT NAVAL RACE: ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL RIVALRY, 1900-1914
• Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679504729
• ISBN 13: 9780679504726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dupont Circle
  • European History
  • Warfare and Conflict
  • Travel, Exploration, & Geography

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Synopsis

This is the dramatic story of the deadly competition in dreadnought battleship construction between Great Britain and Imperial Germany in the years before the First World War. It is a story of two great Empires set on a collision course, climaxing in the Armageddon of 1914.

But was 1914 the inevitable result of the armaments race? Historians have long argued the point, and now Peter Padfield – with the aid of documents from both British and German archives – argues forcibly that the major causes of the First World War were not the armaments themselves, but rather the personalities involved, especially Kaiser Wilhelm II, with his obsessive dreams of imperial destiny

The Great Naval Race is a clear and compelling narrative of those fateful years and vividly portrays the leading protagonists in the drama.

On the German side, Kaiser Wilhelm and Admiral Tirpitz, who launched the challenge to British naval supremacy; and on the British side, the statesmen who responded to that challenge – Admiral Fisher, who dragged the British Navy into the twentieth century, Edward Grey and Winston Churchill.



’A favourite on this topic, it is concise but brilliantly written, capturing the passion and urgency of these events with a Kiplingesque energy’ - Goodreads review

‘Indispensable for those who want to understand the roots of the Great War’ - Amazon review

Peter Padfield lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He worked with P&O and sailed with Alan Villiers in Mayflower II in commemoration of the journey of the Pilgrim Fathers. The Titanic and The Californian won him international recognition as a writer. He is also the author of classic biographies of Hess, Donitz and Himmler and has written widely on the sea, including a work on naval gunnery.