Reviews : Paul G. Halpern,The Mediterranean Naval Situation 1908-1914,Cambridge,Mass.,Harvard University Press,1971. 415 pp. £6.50 Holger H. Herwig,The German Naval Officer Corps A Social and Political History 1890-1918,London,Oxford University Press,1973. 298 pp. £6.00
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Reviews : Paul G. Halpern,The Mediterranean Naval Situation 1908-1914,Cambridge,Mass.,Harvard University Press,1971. 415 pp. £6.50 Holger H. Herwig,The German Naval Officer Corps A Social and Political History 1890-1918,London,Oxford University Press,1973. 298 pp. £6.00
A useful adjunct to Halpern's work is E.W.R. Lumby (ed.), Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean 1912-1914 (Navy Records Society, 1970).
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E.g. Egmont Zechlin, 'Deutschland zwischen Kabinettskrieg und Wirtschaftskrieg', Historische Zeitschrift, CXCIX, 1964.
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For the British dimension, see the present reviewer's The Plans of War The General Staff and Brittsh Military Strategy c 1900-1916 ( London1974), 271-3.
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Luigi Cadoma, Altre pagine sulla grande guerra (Milan1935), 18.
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Vid K. Demeter, The German Officer Corps in Society and State 1650-1945 ( London1965), 46
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; Jonathan Steinberg, 'The Kaiser's Navy and German Society', Past and Present , 28, 1964, esp. 109.
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M. Kitchen, The German Officer Corps 1890-1914 (Oxford1968), passim.
