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    Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946
    Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946
    Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946
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    Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946

    By Barry D. Hunt

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    Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond was "a unique phenomenon in the Victorian-Edwardian navy—a professionally competent and successful officer who was also an intellectual," writes the author. "This was enough to ensure that his progress would be stormy.''

    This thoroughly documented biographical study of Richmond's professional career reveals a fully experienced, clear-thinking officer with a profound understanding of naval history, "a restless and uncompromising personality," and a passionate concern with naval strategy, the art of war, and the most effective training programme for officers. Richmond persistently challenged the accepted practices and prejudices of the naval profession. He and his small group of disciples, the "Young Turks," found themselves in the thick of the most crucial controversies in the British Navy. In spite of frequent official displeasure, however, Richmond became an influential naval historian and educator, responsible for the creation of the modern naval staff and the Imperial Defence College.

    The volume rests on extensive research in the official records and the private papers of Richmond and his close associates. It will interest not only naval historians, but also those with a general interest in the impact of one man's thought and actions on Britain's defence policy and the outcome of two World Wars.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9780889207660
    Sailor-Scholar: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1871-1946
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    Barry D. Hunt

    Barry D. Hunt received the Ph.D. degree from Queen's University and is presently Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario. He has published several essays on British and Canadian maritime affairs, and is co-editor of War Aims and Strategic Policy in the Great War, 1914-1918.

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