The challenges of command
Subtitle: the Royal Navy's executive branch officers, 1880-1919
By: Robert L. Davison
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781409419679; 9781409419686
Subjects: Officers; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Technological innovations; Naval art and science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social change and the officer corps; title: The nineteenth century officer corps; title: Upright in prosperity and peril; title: "Oh, these magicians and necromancers, they are ruining us" : engineers and sailors in conflict; title: The reinvention of the officer corps; title: History as a professional tool; title: Journals and staffs : organizational change 1911-1914; title: "Auxillium ab alto" : the experience of war.