Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. This is a book about leadership and command, bravery and timidity, genius and folly.

History

robert-k-massie

Europe

Random House]

[Read by Frederick Davidson] Massie brings to life of one of the greatest rulers in history, vividly evoking both the Russia of Peter's birth and the very different Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped.

Peter the Great: His Life and World (Abacus Books)

Abacus Books (Sphere)

The story of the love that ended an empire In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Nicholas and Alexandra

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Gollancz

The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and His Family

Victor Gollancz

The story of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra has fired the world's imagination ever since their violent deaths during the Russian Revolution. In this biography, first published in 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie sets out to show how the personal tragedy of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. The book presents an account of one of history's most dramatic episodes, and a portrait of the two people caught at the centre of the maelstrom.

Nicholas and Alexandra (Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and His Family)

Historical

INDIGO

A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie   With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain’s greatest twentieth-century foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British navy and brought forth the first true battleship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.   Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.   Praise for Dreadnought   “Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events.”—Time   “A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era . . . engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters.”—Chicago Sun-Times   “[Told] on a grand scale . . . Massie [is] a master of historical portraiture and anecdotage.”—The Wall Street Journal   “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

Dreadnought

Pimlico

Editorial Review Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Massie plays to his strength as he expands upon the story begun in DREADNOUGHT. 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 Jellicoe among the Brits, and Pohl and Tirpitz among the Germans - who masterminded these battles that forever changed the practice of war. "Like 19th-century novelists, Massie employs an epic narrative that leisurely explores characters."

Castles of Steel (Lib)(CD)

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Peter the Great brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century. This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers -- and men -- in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas. We see Peter in his twenties traveling ''incognito'' with his ambassadors to the courts of Europe; as the victorious soldier proclaimed Emperor; as the simple workman at his forge; and as the visionary statesman who single-handedly created a formidable world power. Impetuous and stubborn, bawdy and stern, relentless in his perseverance, he was capable of the greatest generosity and the greatest cruelty.

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Blackstone Audiobooks

Peter the Great brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century. This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers -- and men -- in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas. We see Peter in his twenties traveling ''incognito'' with his ambassadors to the courts of Europe; as the victorious soldier proclaimed Emperor; as the simple workman at his forge; and as the visionary statesman who single-handedly created a formidable world power. Impetuous and stubborn, bawdy and stern, relentless in his perseverance, he was capable of the greatest generosity and the greatest cruelty.

Peter the Great: The compelling story of the man who created modern Russia, founded St Petersburg and made his country part of Europe (Great Lives)

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Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

Peter the Great: His Life and World (Abacus Books)

Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and His Family

Nicholas and Alexandra (Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and His Family)

Dreadnought

Castles of Steel (Lib)(CD)

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Peter the Great: The compelling story of the man who created modern Russia, founded St Petersburg and made his country part of Europe (Great Lives)