Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea Animals in WWI and the United States

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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea Animals in WWI and the United StatesDescription by Robert K. Massie Paperback In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire,