Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, Volum 3Harvard University Press, 1959 |
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... never read anything like them ! But what good ? There is no ' push ' ! Passivity , as Winston said , is the Admiralty motto , and the Germans are sinking ships freely . I am vegetating here . I find it maddening being in London ...
... never read anything like them ! But what good ? There is no ' push ' ! Passivity , as Winston said , is the Admiralty motto , and the Germans are sinking ships freely . I am vegetating here . I find it maddening being in London ...
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... Never in my life have I written a letter with deeper reluctance than this . I have been hoping against hope you would have listened to my entreaty not to give up command of the Grand Fleet , more especially just now when Hindenburg will ...
... Never in my life have I written a letter with deeper reluctance than this . I have been hoping against hope you would have listened to my entreaty not to give up command of the Grand Fleet , more especially just now when Hindenburg will ...
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... never explain . I never deny . I never apologize . I always think of the greatest logician who ever lived , Archbishop Whately , ' who wrote a pamphlet completely proving that Napoleon Bonaparte never existed . He said , ' Never fight a ...
... never explain . I never deny . I never apologize . I always think of the greatest logician who ever lived , Archbishop Whately , ' who wrote a pamphlet completely proving that Napoleon Bonaparte never existed . He said , ' Never fight a ...
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PREFACE 93 | 9 |
PROLOGUE 19031914 | 26 |
FIRST SEA LORD 19141915 | 39 |
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