China Daily has been making much of Harvard University Prof. Joseph Nye’s comments about China’s rise and American decline. In a recent article titled ‘Don’t Magnify China’s Power,’ Ariel Tung reports ...

Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy is an important book for those seeking to understand the factors contributing to the outbreak of World War I. The author, Patrick Kelly, has researched the subject ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: It remains the greatest destruction of naval power in a single day in modern military history. A little over one hundred years ago, the German High Seas Fleet committed ...

Key Point: Imperial Germany wanted to be a superpower. The centenary of the beginning of World War I has revealed a deep divide between perceptions of the war held by the general public and historians ...

Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis.

On Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer. It’s easy for modern commentators to regard the German Empire as no more than a violent chapter in European history.

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