A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book
describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as
political head of the Admiralty and the ageing Admiral Jacky Fisher
as professional master and creator of Dreadnought, locked together
in perilous destiny. Upon these Titans at the Admiralty rested
Allied command of the sea at the moment of its supreme test, the
challenge presented by the Kaiser s navy under the dangerous
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Churchill and Fisher exhibited vision,
genius, and energy, but the war unfolded in unexpected ways. German
cruisers escaped to Constantinople bringing Turkey into the war,
and though Coronel s disaster was redeemed at the Falklands,
Jellicoe s Grand Fleet was forced to seek refuge from U-boats; the
torpedo and mine became prominent, to German advantage. There were
no Trafalgars, no Nelsons. Press and Parliament became
battlegrounds for a public expecting decisive victory at sea. Then
the ill-fated Dardanelles adventure, by ships alone as Churchill
determined, on top of the Zeppelin raids brought about Fisher s
departure from the Admiralty, in turn bringing down Churchill.
Wilderness years followed, with Churchill commanding a battalion on
the Western Front and Fisher chairing an inventions board seeking
an electronic countermeasure to the lethal U-boat. This dual
biography, based on fresh and thorough appraisal of the Churchill
and Fisher papers, is a story for the ages. It is about Churchill s
and Fisher s war how each fought it, how they waged it together,
and how they fought against each other, face to face or behind the
scenes. It reveals a strange and unique pairing of sea lords who
found themselves facing Armageddon and seeking to maintain the
primacy of the Royal Navy, the guardian of trade, the succour of
the British peoples, and the shield of Empire.
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