Historian Barry Gough examines the preperations for war made by Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher (1911-1914) including the naval officers involved, the role of oil, the Mediterranean naval revolution, the challenge of submarines, and Churchill’s lobbying for air power.
BARRY GOUGH, prize-winning and Historian and biographer, is a Fellow of Kings College London and Archives Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. His Pax Britannica won The Mountbatten Literary Award of the British Maritime Foundation and he is author of numerous studies of sea power and imperial affairs. Gough is an Emeritus Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and a resident of Victoria, BC.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.