pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE GERMAN THREAT 1901-1914
ADMIRALTY PLANS TO PROTECT BRITISH TRADE IN A WAR AGAINST GERMANY
By: Matthew S. Seligmann
Format: Hardback

List price: £140.00
Our price: £135.80
Discount:
3% off
You save: £4.20
ISBN 10: 0199574030
ISBN 13: 9780199574032
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 24 May, 2012
Pages: 198
Description: Offers a new and original account of the efforts made by the Royal Navy to prepare for war with Germany in the decade and a half before 1914. Seligmann demonstrates that from being unready for an assault on British seaborne trade, the Royal Navy had given a great deal of thought to its protection.
Synopsis: When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the British Admiralty (rightly) believed that Germany's naval planners intended to arm their country's fast merchant vessels in wartime and send them out to attack British trade in the manner of the privateers of old. This threat to British seaborne commerce was so serious that the leadership of the Royal Navy spent twelve years trying to work out how best to counter it. Ever more elaborate measures were devised to this end. These included building 'fighting liners' to run down the German ones; devising a specialized warship, the battle cruiser, as a weapon of trade defence; attempting to change international law to prohibit the conversion of merchant vessels into warships on the high seas; establishing a global intelligence network to monitor German shipping movements; and, finally, the arming of British merchant vessels in self-defence.The manner in which German schemes for commerce warfare drove British naval policy for over a decade before 1914 has not been recognized before. The Royal Navy and the German Threat illustrates a new and important aspect of British naval history.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
GERMANY FROM REICH TO REPUBLIC, 1871-1918 (HB)
GERMANY FROM REICH TO REPUBLIC, 1871-1918 (HB)
GERMANY FROM REICH TO REPUBLIC, 1871-1918 (PB)
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA (HB)
LEADERSHIP IN CONFLICT (HB)
LOSING THE PEACE (PB)
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FROM GERMANY, 1906-1914 (HB)
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FROM BERLIN (PB)
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FROM GERMANY
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FROM GERMANY
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FROM GERMANY
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FROM GERMANY (HB)
RIVALRY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 1893-99
RIVALRY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 1893-99 (HB)
RUM, SODOMY, PRAYERS, AND THE LASH REVISITED (HB)
SPIES IN UNIFORM (HB)
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS (HB)
THE NAVAL ROUTE TO THE ABYSS (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Challenge and Transformation: Britain c1851-1964 (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £35.99
more details
Bess of Hardwick (Paperback)
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £10.94
more details
How The Irish Saved Civilization (Paperback)
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Making Sense of the Troubles (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £12.40
more details
Ancient Britain (Sheet map, folded)
Ordnance Survey
Our Price : £5.83
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 HUMANITIES
 history
 british & irish history


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
World’s Worst Superheroes GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
add to basket





New
No Cheese, Please! A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
add to basket

New
My Brother Is a Superhero Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
add to basket


Picture Book
Animal Actions: Snap Like a Crab
By:
The first title in a new preschool series from Guilherme Karsten.
add to basket