David G Morgan-Owen

The Fear of Invasion

Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

In this new study of the lead-up to the Great War, David G. Morgan-Owen deals with an aspect of the war seldom discussed for the simple reason that it never actually came to pass: a German invasion of the United Kingdom. Morgan-Owen makes the case that this fear of invasion played a central role in the formation of British strategy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198862321
• ISBN-10: 0198862326
• Artikelnr.: 58779281

Autorenporträt

David G. Morgan-Owen is a lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London. He was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, and an Associate of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter, where he gained his PhD in 2013. Dr. Morgan-Owen has published on British strategy before and during the First World War in the English Historical Review, War in History, Journal of Strategic Studies, and the International History Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Command of the Sea
2: The Military Resources of the Empire
3: 'Practical Politics'
4: Preparing for War
5: The German Threat
6: The North Sea Guard
7: A Growing Burden
8: Surrendering the Initiative
Conclusion