Bøger af Lawrence Sondhaus

Europe ruled the waves for most of the modern era and even when its navies were eclipsed in size by the US force, they continued to dominate world wars. In this volume Larry Sondhaus charts the development of naval warfare in Europe.

Shows how national strategies to warfare are culturally determined. These ideas have gained acceptance among historians but remain controversial for political scientists, as political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war. This work helps both audiences and provides them with each others ideas.

This important new book examines the slow transition from the timber fleets of Napoleonic times to the might of pre-World War One German and British navies.

This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in the design and performance of ships, wireless communication and firepower. He charts how Allied supremacy led the Central Powers to attempt to revolutionize naval warfare by pursuing unrestricted submarine warfare, ultimately prompting the United States to enter the war. Victory against the submarine challenge, following their earlier success in sweeping the seas of German cruisers and other surface raiders, left the Allies free to use the world's sea lanes to transport supplies and troops to Europe from overseas territories, and eventually from the United States, which proved a decisive factor in their ultimate victory.

This volume aims to show the right questions to ask in a survey questionnaire. It presents a framework of seven simple questions, and the advantage and disadvantage of the different question types and when to use each.