Historical Dreadnoughts

An account of Arthur Marder, his famous sparring partner Captain Stephen Roskill, and their enduring quest for pre-eminence in the naval history field. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century—the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid of h