Author: MARDER, ARTHUR J.
Title: From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow - the Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919, Volume I, the Road to War, 1904-1914
Description: London: Oxford University Press (Canada), 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. xxii, 459 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Footnotes. Index. This copy is a 1966 reprint of the 1961 first edition. "The story, well known it its outlines, has been filled in with fascinating detail obtained from many collections of unpublished official papers. The author has also made good use of the personal papers left by participants, and has had the full co-operation of the Admiralty, and the result is a book of first-rate importance for its factual authority." - dust jacket. "The book flows, from page to entrancing page, an utterly fascinating record of a period of deep and significant naval interest. This is history as it should be written." - The Navy. Book very clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Average wear to dust jacket which shows a bit of peeling from backstrip and is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. ENSER p.310.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Royal Navy, World War I. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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