Churchill And Fisher

Author : Barry Gough
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459411364

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Churchill and Fisher by Barry Gough Pdf

A vivid study of the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty during the First World War. Churchill was locked together in a perilous destiny with the ageing British Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, the professional master of the British Navy and the creator of the enormous battleships known as Dreadnoughts. Upon these 'Titans at the Admiralty' rested British command of the sea at the moment of its supreme test — the challenge presented by the Kaiser's navy under the dangerous Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Churchill and Fisher had vision, genius, and energy, but the war unfolded in unexpected ways. There were no Trafalgars, no Nelsons. Press and Parliament became battlegrounds for a public expecting decisive victory at sea. An ill-fated Dardanelles adventure, 'by ships alone' as Churchill determined, on top of the Zeppelin raids on Britain brought about Fisher's departure from the Admiralty, in turn bringing down Churchill. They spent the balance of the war in the virtual wilderness. This dual biography, based on fresh and thorough appraisal of the Churchill and Fisher papers, is a story for any military history buff. It is about Churchill's and Fisher's war — how each fought it, how they waged it together, and how they fought against each other, face to face or behind the scenes. It reveals a strange and unique pairing of sea lords who found themselves facing Armageddon and seeking to maintain the primacy of the Royal Navy, the guardian of trade, the succour of the British peoples, and the shield of Empire.

Author : Geoffrey Penn
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023641397

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Fisher, Churchill and the Dardenelles by Geoffrey Penn Pdf

The forced resignation of German-born Prince Louis of Battenburg as head of the Royal Navy at the end of 1914 left Britain's sea arm under divided leadership in the early months of a world war.

Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034923

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Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution by Nicholas A. Lambert Pdf

This volume explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and domestic politicians and social reformers before World War I. It also explains how Britain's naval leaders responded to non-military, cultural challenges under the direction of Adimiral Sir John Fisher.

Author : Christopher M. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198702542

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Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell Pdf

The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office (First Lord of the Admiralty) in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial campaign. For some, the Dardanelles offensive was a brilliant concept that might have dramatically shortened the First World War. To many others, however, Churchill was a reckless amateur who drove his unwilling and misinformed colleagues into a venture that was doomed to fail. This book, based on exhaustive archival research, provides a detailed and authoritative account of the Gallipoli campaign's origins and execution, stripping away the layers of myth that have long surrounded these dramatic events, and showing that no simple verdict is either possible or fair. Naval historian Christopher M. Bell untangles Churchill's complicated relationship with the dynamic First Sea Lord, Admiral Jacky Fisher, and reveals for the first time the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to Churchill's removal from office, including Fisher's covert campaign to undermine support for the Dardanelles operation, and the leaks by figures in high places that fuelled a bitter press campaign to drive Churchill from power. Equal attention is also given to the perhaps even more important story of Churchill and the Dardanelles after 1915. As Bell shows, Churchill spent a good deal of time and effort in the following two decades trying to refute his critics and convince the wider public that the campaign had in fact nearly succeeded. These efforts were so successful that the legacy of the Dardanelles did not stand in the way of Churchill becoming Prime Minister in May 1940--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard Lawrence Ollard
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018929037

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Fisher & Cunningham by Richard Lawrence Ollard Pdf

This book illustrates the differences in character between Jacky Fisher and A.B. Cunningham. Fisher is remembered in the general view of his time for his impishness and gift for epigram. Cunningham, by contrast, is not so well remembered generally except by the senior citizens who remember the war. Cunningham is given greater prominence in this dual biography. The author was a Vice-President of the Navy Records Office, so has had the advantage of conversations with men who served on Cunningham's staff in the days of his greatness.

Author : Barry Gough (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526703599

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Churchill and Fisher by Barry Gough (author) Pdf

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265930

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Fisher's Face by Jan Morris Pdf

Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan Morris has been haunted by his face - with its startling combination of 'the suave, the sneering and the self-amused.' This evocation is both biography and a love letter, a perfect expression of her passionate interest in mavericks and outsiders, in travel, ships and the glorious pageantry of the British Empire in its prime.

Author : Christopher M. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199678501

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Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M. Bell Pdf

Examines the leader's record as a naval strategist and his impact on naval power, seeking to debunk misconceptions about his failed campaigns and devasting losses during both World Wars.

Author : Sir Winston Churchill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204447

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Great Contemporaries [Revised Edition] by Sir Winston Churchill Pdf

This is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940-1945. The original collection of 21 essays was published in 1937, mainly written between 1928 and 1931. This 1939 edition contains four additional essays on Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt. “THESE essays on Great Men of our age have been written by me at intervals during the last eight years. Although each is self-contained, they throw from various angles, a light upon the main course of the events through which we have lived. I hope they will be found to illustrate some of its less well-known aspects. Taken together they should present not only the actors but the scene. In their sequence they may perhaps be the stepping-stones of historical narrative. The central theme is of course the group of British statesmen who shone at the end of the last century and the beginning of this—Balfour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith and Curzon. All lived, worked and disputed for so many years together, knew each other well, and esteemed each other highly. It was my privilege as a far younger man to be admitted to their society and their kindness. Reading again these chapters has brought them back to me, and made me feel how much has changed in our political life. Perhaps this is but the illusion which comes upon us all as we grow older. Certainly we must all hope this may prove to be so. In the meantime those to whom these great men are but names—that is to say the vast majority of my readers—may perhaps be glad to gain from these notes some acquaintance with them.” “By far the most important, thoughtful edition of Churchill’s famous personality sketches ever published...The indispensable ‘desert island’ text for any marooned Churchillian.”—Finest Hour “Interesting, well written and worth reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588363206

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Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie Pdf

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning 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, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts—gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away—were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to “seize the trident” by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry. Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massie’ s special and widely hailed literary mastery. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great.

Author : Virginia Cowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : UOM:39015049813598

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Winston Churchill by Virginia Cowles Pdf

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036901

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The Great War at Sea by Lawrence Sondhaus Pdf

New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.

Author : Francis Neilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008386610

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The Churchill Legend by Francis Neilson Pdf

Author : Lucy Fisher
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008456122

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Women in the War by Lucy Fisher Pdf

‘An important contribution to our recent history’ ANDREW MARR ‘Absorbing and important’ JOAN BAKEWELL ‘One of my favourite reads of 2021’ GARETH RUSSELL

Author : Michael Shelden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451609929

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Young Titan by Michael Shelden Pdf

An account of the World War II Prime Minister's early career includes coverage of his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reforms and his lesser-known romantic pursuits. By the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Orwell.