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The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the
Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest
contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan.
A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique
fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift of
simple narrative ...He is beyond praise, as he is beyond cavil.'
The five volumes were subtitled The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era,
1904 - 1919 and they are still, despite recent major contributions
from Robert Massie and Andrew Gordan, regarded by many as the
definitive history of naval events leading up to and including the
Great War. This second volume begins with the embarrassing escape
of the German ship Goeben, before moving on to the defeat at
Coronel, soon avenged off the Falkland Islands. Marder then turns
his attention to the humiliation of the Dardenelles and the
submarine menace, before looking in detail at the whole question of
British strategy and at how the High Seas Fleet was to brought to
battle and dealt the crushing blow which the British public felt so
confident of. A new introduction by Barry Gough, the distinguished
Canadian maritime and naval historian, assesses the importance of
Marder's work and anchors it firmly amongst the great naval
narrative histories of this era. This new paperback edition will
bring a truly great work to a new generation of historians and
general readers.
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