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Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Massie plays to his strength as he expands upon the story begun in Dreadnaught. While the previous book focused on the personal rivalries that led up to World War I, Castles of Steel examines the sea war between Germany and Britain. The face-off between two great navies of dreadnoughts - fast battleships that were defended by big guns only - plays like a Homeric battle between Cyclops, the warring powers hurling titanic levels of firepower in battles that produced such catastrophes as Gallipoli and Jutland. Massie spins a tale of intricate strategy, and examines the larger-than-life personalities - Churchill and Jellico among the Brits, and Pohl and Tirpitz among the Germans - who masterminded these battles that forever changed the practice of war.

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Praise for Robert K. Massie's Dreadnought<br><br> Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events. --Time<br> <br> A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters. --Chicago Sun-Times<br> <br> [Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage. --The Wall Street Journal<br> <br> Brilliant on everything he writes about ships and the sea. It is Massie's eye for detail that makes his nautical set pieces so marvelously evocative. --Los Angeles Times<br> <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

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