Dreadnought

ISBN: 9781780768267 出版年：2015 页码：338 Roger Parkinson Bloomsbury Publishing

The years leading to World War I were tDreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of naval warfare and policy. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. The years before 1914 were characterised by intensifying Anglo-German naval competition, with an often forgotten element beyond Europe in trapidly developing navies of the United States and Japan. Parkinson shows that, although the advent of the dreadnought was the pivotal turning-point in naval policy, in fatechnology that enabled the dreadnought to be launched was a continuity from the pre-dreadnougannals of the Royal Navy two nambe linked: those of Admiral Sir John 'Jacky' Fisher and the ship he created, HMS Dreadnought.This book shows how the dreadnought enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily t'Pax Britannica' in the Victorian era to being a war-ready fighting force in the early years of the twentieth century. The ensuing era of intensifying naval competition rapidly became a full-blooded naval arms race, leading to the development of super-dreadnoughts and escalating tensions between the European powers. Providing a truly international perspective on the dreadnought phenomenon, this book will be essential reading for all naval history enthusiasts and anyone interested in World War I.