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03366aam a2200361Ia 4500 001 253E6EC2B3EB11E38723ADE5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140325020021 008 041202s2003 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780345408785 020 $a 0345408780 035 $a (OCoLC)57134223 040 $a IMF $c IMF $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d SINLB $d GKG $d BDX $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 4 $a D581 $b .M37 2003b 082 04 $a 940.45941 $2 21 100 1 $a Massie, Robert K., $d 1929- 245 10 $a Castles of steel : $b Britain, Germany, and the winning of the Great War at sea / $c Robert K. Massie. 260 $a New York : $b Ballantine, $c c2003. 300 $a x, 865 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill., maps ; $c 25 cm. 505 0 $a Contains footnotes and index. 500 $a Continuation of R.K. Massie's Dreadnaughts. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [821]-829) and index. 520 $a In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first World War is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts - gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away - were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to "seize the trident" by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Royal Navy $x History $y World War, 1914-1918. 610 10 $a Germany. $b Kriegsmarine $x History $y World War, 1914-1918. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Naval operations, British. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Naval operations, German. 941 $a 3 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203015645.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107044726.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140531010410.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=253E6EC2B3EB11E38723ADE5DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search