Spies in Uniform读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 288页 | 2020 | Oxford Univ Pr |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ 169.50 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-09-13 … | 85 |
Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914? Was it because Germany posed a threat to British national security? Today many prominent historians would argue that this was not the case and that a million British citizens died needlessly for a misguided cause. This book counters such revisionist arguments. Matthew Seligmann disputes the suggestion that the British government either got its facts wrong about the German threat or even, as some have claimed, deliberately 'invented' it in order to justify an otherwise unnecessary alignment with France and Russia. By examining the military and naval intelligence assessments forwarded from Germany to London by Britain's service attaches in Berlin, its 'men on the spot', Spies in Uniform clearly demonstrates that the British authorities had every reason to be alarmed. From these crucial intelligence documents, previously thought to have been lost, Dr Seligmann shows that in the decade before the First World War, the British government was kept well informed about military and naval developments in the Reich. In particular, the attaches consistently warned that German ambitions to challenge Britain posed a real and imminent danger to national security. As a result, the book concludes that the British government's perception of a German threat before 1914, far from being mistaken or invented, was rooted in hard and credible intelligence.
作者简介马修·塞利格曼（Matthew S. Seligmann），英国布鲁内尔大学教授，英国皇家历史学会会员，海军档案协会理事，主要从事英德海军竞赛、次世界大战起源和情报史研究，代表作有《朗姆酒、同性恋、祈祷和鞭刑：温斯顿·丘吉尔与英国海军的社会改革，1900—1915年》《英国海军与德国威胁，1901—1914年：在对德战争中保护英国贸易的海军部计划》等，曾荣获英国“朱利安·科海军史研究奖”。译者胡杰，历史学博士，法学博士后，武汉大学中国边界与海洋研究院讲师、国家领土主权与海洋权益协同创新中心副研究员，主要从事英国海军史和海洋战略问题研究，著有《海洋战略与不列颠帝国的兴衰》。
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