The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany - Tapa dura

An incisive politico-military history showing that a heretofore niche aspect of the Anglo-German naval race seriously troubled the British Admiralty throughout the Edwardian period. Discussion of ships, shells and security on the high seas is admittedly terse stuff, but the writing is sprightly and the result a timely dredging around the origins of the Great War after a century of resting, unrecovered, in an archival tomb. (Matthew Feldman, Times Higher Education)

a must-read for naval historians. (Professor Levy from the Journal of Military History)

a serious, scholarly and original interpretation which future historians will have to take seriously. (International Journal of Maritime History)

The history of the Royal Navy in the years 1900â14 has become a lively and controversial field in recent years, and this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments ... The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Royal Navy in the Fisher era. (Christopher M. Bell, Journal of British Studies)

compelling and offers a number of valuable new perspectives (Oliver Walton, Mariner's Mirror)

It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years. (Michael Clemmesen, Militært Tidsskrift)

essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Royal Navy in the Fisher era. (Christopher M. Bell, Journal of British Studies)

the best treatment of the origins of the battlecruiser I have seen. (Jonathan Beard, Michigan War Studies Review)

specialists in British naval history will welcome this book as an important and meticulously researched new addition to the literature on the British naval elite. (Mark Jones, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin)

This is a good book. (Al Berger, H-War)

This is an account of the efforts made by the Royal Navy to prepare for war with Germany more than a decade before 1914. Seligmann demonstrates that from being unready for an assault on British seaborne trade, the Royal Navy had given a great deal of thought to its protection.