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About this book
Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond was "a unique phenomenon in the Victorian-Edwardian navy—a professionally competent and successful officer who was also an intellectual," writes the author. "This was enough to ensure that his progress would be stormy.''
This thoroughly documented biographical study of Richmond's professional career reveals a fully experienced, clear-thinking officer with a profound understanding of naval history, "a restless and uncompromising personality," and a passionate concern with naval strategy, the art of war, and the most effective training programme for officers. Richmond persistently challenged the accepted practices and prejudices of the naval profession. He and his small group of disciples, the "Young Turks," found themselves in the thick of the most crucial controversies in the British Navy. In spite of frequent official displeasure, however, Richmond became an influential naval historian and educator, responsible for the creation of the modern naval staff and the Imperial Defence College.
The volume rests on extensive research in the official records and the private papers of Richmond and his close associates. It will interest not only naval historians, but also those with a general interest in the impact of one man's thought and actions on Britain's defence policy and the outcome of two World Wars.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Fisher Era: The Education of a Reformer
- 2. The Naval Society and Review
- 3. At the Admiralty: The First Years of War (1914-1915)
- 4. Crisis at Sea: The Young Turks' Revolt (1916-1917)
- 5. The Wemyss Regime: Great Expectations Unfulfilled (1918-1919)
- 6. Postwar Readjustments: The View from Greenwich (1920-1923)
- 7. The East Indies Station: Singapore, India, and Imperial Defence (1923-1925)
- 8. The Imperial Defence College (1926-1928)
- 9. Madden, "Royal Oak," and "Belligerent Rights": "The Day of the Politician" (1927-1929)
- 10. "Smaller Navies": The London Naval Conference and Richmond's Retirement (1929-1931)
- 11. Cambridge: The Final Years
- Retrospective
- Bibliography
- Index