This important new book examines the slow transition from the timber fleets of Napoleonic times to the might of pre-World War One German and British navies.[...]
A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ways of war dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized[...]
This is an indispensable and accessible new introduction to the global history of World War One and its revolutionary consequences.[...]
This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role o[...]