num_pages: 1040
description: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, DREADNOUGHT is history at its most riveting.
language: English
title: Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
titlecomplete: Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
genres: History, World War I, European History, War, Germany, Military History, Naval History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 6545
series: Dreadnought
publisher: Ballantine Books