The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906‐1922

Prospective purchasers of this book should take care to examine the subtitle. It is not a history of the Grand Fleet, nor yet a list of its individual ships, but an account of the design of the various types built in the period following the completion of the famous Dreadnought, which had rendered all previous battleships obsolete and thus given new impetus to the naval race between the UK and Germany, in which, for the next decade, each strove to build ships which would outdo the other. This was, I think, the only period of our history in which...