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Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty

Autor Estate Of Stephen Roskill
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2018
Stephen Roskill�s magnificent biography explains why Admiral David Beatty has come to be seen as Britain�s last naval hero. His early promise led to fast promotion and he became the youngest admiral since Nelson. But that is only one part of the story and there are aspects of his character that were not entirely admirable. There were, and still remain, questions over his handling of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at Jutland at which his highly aggressive approach was contrasted with the prudence of his commander, Sir John Jellicoe. His turbulent marriage and his extra-marital liaisons were to be suppressed in his official biography but in some ways, these aspects are as significant to our understanding of him as Nelson and Emma Hamilton�s great affair is to our reading of the Napoleonic era at sea.
Roskill deals with all these issues and in doing so brilliantly reassesses Beatty�s place in history. Access to new material at the time of writing allowed Roskill to write a balanced and wholly credible account of an extraordinary life, and this wonderfully readable and intimate biography will appeal to a whole new generation of readers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526706553
ISBN-10: 1526706555
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 18 b/w photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: US Naval Institute Press

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Compelling narrative of the great British Admiral who took the surrender of the German navy in 1918