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Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty Hardcover – November 1, 2017

by Barry Gough (Author)

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A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty and the aging Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher as professional master and creator of HMS Dreadnought.

Churchill and Fisher exhibited vision, genius, and energy, but the war unfolded in unexpected ways. This dual biography, based on a fresh and thorough appraisal of the Churchill and Fisher papers, reveals a strange and unique pairing of sea lords who found themselves seeking to maintain the primacy of the Royal Navy.

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English
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Naval Institute Press
Publication date

November 1, 2017
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6.3 x 2.2 x 9.3 inches
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1526703564
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978-1526703569
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"Churchill and Fisher proves to be a masterpiece, filled with action and high drama... Gough writes well, and his book is both good literature and solid history." --Sea History

"This is a most enthralling story... It is a book to be valued as a standard treatise of the times for students of the period - whether they are in the 'fishpond' or not." --Australian Naval Institute

"Churchill and Fisher is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Royal Navy and the Great War at sea." --Strategy Page

About the Author

BARRY GOUGH, prize-winning and acclaimed historian and biographer, is a Fellow of Kings College London and Archives Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. He is author of numerous studies of sea power and imperial affairs, including Historical Dreadnoughts and That Hamilton Woman. He is emeritus professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Institute Press (November 1, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526703564
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526703569
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 2.2 x 9.3 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,682,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #848 in WWI Biographies
- #4,626 in World War I History (Books)
- #6,000 in Naval Military History

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Chris Sterling

A masterpiece . . .

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2018

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A well-published historian of the Royal Navy, Gough provides an excellent and eminently readable account of the 1911-15 period when Churchill (and by 1914) Fisher served together--the former as First Lord of the Admiralty and the latter performing a brief final act as First Sea Lord. Arthur Marder, among other previous researchers, has gone over similar ground before. But Gough has gained access to some archives Marder never saw, and as a result has written a masterpiece. He carefully assesses both men, finding fault with each in the crucial months leading up to the Dardanelles disaster in mid-1915 that cost both their jobs. But Churchill returned to the cabinet in 1917 while the elderly Fisher could only fulminate from the sidelines. In one sense, this is a tragedy as we watch the once all-powerful Fisher decline to unimportance. Churchill had youth on his side, as well as a talent for constructive compromise and another for impressive public speaking. What happened in 1915, so well told here, helped prepare Churchill for the crisis of 1940.

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Albert A. Nofi

The Contentious Giants who Prepared the Royal Navy for the Great War

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2018

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'Gough draws on a remarkable command of both men’s papers, as well as many other documents. He discusses how each of these energetic innovators worked to modernize and prepare the fleet for war, usually working together, but often at odds. He fits their activities within the broader framework of events, so we how their actions affected and were affected by political and military developments not only in Britain but in Germany and elsewhere, and we also get looks at a lot of the other interesting people of their age.

'Clearly rather fond of both men, Gough is by no means an apologist for their errors, and subjects both to some serious criticism at times, notably in his detailed look at Churchill’s improbable escapades at Antwerp in the opening weeks of the war.

'"Churchill and Fisher" is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Royal Navy and the Great War at sea.'

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Richard Ellis

the great events of the period and the achievements and shortcomings ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 11, 2018

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An enthralling account, this is an academic work entirely accessible to the non-specialist . Written, as Albert Nofi suggests in his review, with affection for both men, Barry Gough is unsparing in his analysis of the issues, the great events of the period and the achievements and shortcomings of both men (and of the other players on the stage). The book covers the whole of Fisher's life, whereas so much of Churchill's is still to come - the story of Fisher's last years being particularly poignant. Churchill's later achievements seem all the more remarkable after reading this account.

As a non-specialist, my knowledge of Fisher was previously restricted to Jan Morris's idiosyncratic pen portrait "Fisher's Face". My interest stemmed initially from researching family history, Fisher's mother being my great-great-grandmother's sister. When my father, aged 13, went for his Dartmouth interview a mere 13 years after Jacky's death, his aunts told him to be sure to mention to their lordships that Jacky was his cousin. We don't know if he did.

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