Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (Studies in Maritime History)
"This is a very good book and a very important one. . . . Lambert's command of the primary sources is remarkable ....His treatment not only lays bare the superficial nature of much previous historical research in this era but also indicates the degree to which that superficiality has caused our understanding of the period to be profoundly flawed."--Naval War College Review"This is a superb, scholarly study ....Lambert provides a brilliant, incisive insight into the challenges of naval force development in a period of rapid change ....The tools of the trade that Lambert uses to construct his analysis are his remarkable--one might even say awesome--research, an interpretive skill that allows him to reconcile divergent threads that previous historians have been unable to knit together, and a competent narrative style."--The American Neptune"This  extraordinary book examines the radical and multi-faceted solution to the problem of British naval defense in the early 20th century devised by Admiral Sir John Fisher ....His study is based upon an intensive investigation of archival sources that surpasses all previous work on the Royal Navy in the steam era."--Proceedings