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Massie, Robert K. Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov. 2003. 880p. index. Random, $35 (0-679-45671-6). 940.4.
Massie has distinguished himself as a writer who pens enormous narrative histories so engaging that readers, losing themselves in the romance-novel story style, forget that they're reading nearly 1,000 pages of nonfiction. Dovetailing nicely with Dreadnaught (1991), which covers 40 years of British-German politics leading up to the Great War, his latest selection delves into politics by other means as the world's then two most powerful navies attempt to sink each other in the cold North Sea. While our cultural memory of World War I has largely been muddily entrenched in France and Belgium, this book shows that the sea was the war's most vital battleground, at a formative moment, adrift between Admiral Nelson--style ...
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