The Washington Post, November 30th, 2003
CASTLES OF STEEL Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea By Robert K. Massie. Random House. 865 pp. $35 For every naval history of the "Great War" there are probably a hundred books about the bloody trench warfare of 1914-18. Robert K. Massie helps redress the imbalance with imposing style in Castles of Steel. This new sequel to Dreadnought is a grand narrative of World War I at sea. Most readers know nothing of that desperate maritime struggle except possibly the Battle of Jutland and perhaps the Dardanelles. The Great War was fought at sea from the South Pacific to the Nor...
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