Title: Sir John Fisher's naval revolution /
Authors: Lambert, Nicholas A., 1967-
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher,; Great Britain. History.; Great Britain History, Naval; Great Britain History, Naval
Abstract: For most of the twentieth century, historians thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a prodigious quantity of primary sources, Nicholas A. Lambert concludes that Admiralty decision-making was in fact driven by factors totally unrelated to the German building program.
Contents: The Price of Naval Supremacy -- Complexity and Duplicity: The Admiralty and the Submarine, 1898-1904 -- Radical Jack Fisher, 1899-1904 -- Necessary Reforms, 1904-1905 -- Defending British Naval Supremacy, 1905-1908 -- Illusions and Realities: Naval Strategic Planning, 1905-1909 -- Aberrations: The Grand Fleet of Battle, 1910-1912 -- The Churchill Administration, 1911-1913 -- The Revolution, 1913-1914.