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Name: Dreadnought
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Author: Robert Massie Freeman

The book traces the diplomatic negotiations and military brinkmanship that defined Germany’s rise to continental hegemony at the end of the nineteenth century. It explains how this new power directly threatened Great Britain’s naval supremacy and its traditionally isolationist foreign policy, setting the stage for tensions that would later erupt into World War I.

First publish date: 1991

Genre: History/Military History

Authors: Robert Massie Freeman

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