The Royal Navy's Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
by
Robert L. Davison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In the period leading up to the First World War Britain's naval supremacy was challenged by an arms race with Germany, fuelled not only by military and geo-strategic rivalries, but an onrush of technological developments. As this book demonstrates, steam turbines, bigger guns, mechanical computing...