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Building the Kaiser's Navy; The Imperial Naval Office and German Industry in the von Tirpitz Era, 18901919, by Gary E. Weir (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 1992, 289pp, illus, biblio, index; $36.95hb) This study follows in fascinating detail the buildup of the German Navy from a standing start in the 1890s, to world-class status in the years preceding World War I -a conflict at least partly precipitated by German navalism. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz forged for Kaiser Wilhelm II the naval sword that the Kaiser rattled so ominously before the war, using remarkable political skills and a keen understanding of the fastdeveloping technologies of steel, steam and explosives. Navalism, of course, proved a disastrous policy for Germany , but one pursued with tenacity and technical brilliance, as this percipient account of the Tirpitz navy shows. PS Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World; In Quest of a New Parkman, by Gregory M. Pfitzer (Northeastern University Press, Boston MA, 1991 , 367pp, illus , notes , biblio, index; $32.50hb) Samuel Eliot Morison 's legacy to the history profession, and to maritime historians particularly, is an enthralling collection of books, essays and reviews aimed to reach both scholars and a larger popular audience. Mr. Pfitzer 's book is a biography of Morison 's intellectual development, told with feeling that Morison
would surely have appreciated, but primarily concerned with the evolution of historical thinking during Morison 's long life and his utterly individual, sometimes combative contribution to contemporary historiography. JA Titanic In a New Light, by Joseph Macinnes (Thomasson-Grant, Charlottesville VA, 1992,96pp,illus;$29.95hb, $l6.95pb) This slender 96-page volume depicts the Titanic wreck in brilliant detail , as photographed by two Russian mini-subs in a recent international filming effort. Photographs of the ship on the builder's ways and at sea are shown large along with giant machinery and elegant interior spaces, in very fine reproduction, and much attention is paid to the diving operation. The vivid account of a survivor, Eva Hart, whose father stayed behind when Eva and her mother boarded a lifeboat, provides a poignant reminder of the human dimension of the disaster that cost 1500 lives , Eva's father 's among them. PS Titanic; An Illustrated History, text by Don Lynch, paintings by Ken Marschall, intro by Robert D. Ballard (Hyperion/Madison Press, New York NY , l 992, 227pp, illus, large format, index; $60hb) Robert D. Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic wreck, notes that as he got into her story, "soon this grand old lady of the deep had me completely in her spell." This sumptuous volume, superbly illustrated by Ken Marschall's paintings, supplemented by an extensive gallery of photographs, recreates that spell, taking you from the dinner party at which the great liner was conceived, through her construction (a tremendous industrial undertaking in itself), to her brief maiden voyage, which came to a heart-stopping end in collision with an iceberg in April 1912. One comes to see how the great ship was a legend in her own time, before her sinking made her immortal. PS The Grace Ships, 1869-1969; An Illustrated History of the W.R. Grace & Co. Shipping Companies, by William Kooiman (Komar Publishing, PO Box 725, Point Reyes Station CA, 1991, 334pp, illus, biblio, index; $32.95hb) For an even century, Grace-owned vessels plied the ocean routes uniting the America5-from Yankee down easters in the 1l870s to passenger liners and freighters in the 1960s. In 1969 W. R. Grace & Co. sold its shipping interests to SEA HISTORY 65 , SPRING 1993