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Hankey; Man of Secrets, Volume 1, 1877-1918

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Hankey; Man of Secrets, Volume 1, 1877-1918

de Roskill, Stephen

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Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 672 pages. Some wear and pieces missing from dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments, Appendices, Index, and Footnotes. Includes 26 b/w photos, and 8 full-page b/w maps. Also includes appendices showing a specimen of Hankey's rough note for Minutes of a Cabinet Meeting, the Administration Staff who served in the Cabinet Office from 1908-1918, and Index. Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA (1 August 1903 - 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history. For his actions in helping keep HMS Leander afloat, Roskill was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In March, 1944 he was promoted acting captain and joined the British Admiralty delegation in Washington, D.C. as chief staff officer for administration and weapons. He was the senior British observer at the Bikini Atomic tests in 1946, and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-48 before retiring as a captain. On retiring from service in 1948, Roskill was appointed by the Cabinet Office Historical Section to write the official naval history of the Second World War. His three volume work The War at Sea was published between 1954 and 1961. He was a visiting lecturer at several universities, including being Lees Knowles Lecturer in 1961, the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965, and Richmond Lecturer at Cambridge University in 1967. From 1908 when he joined the office of the Committee of Imperial Defence until 1942, Hankey was at the center of policy. Both Asquith and Lloyd George came to rely unhesitatingly on his discretion and his capability, and had neither had reason to regret it. Asquith promoted him to be Secretary of the Committee of the War Cabinet. Between the wars Hankey was to serve every Prime Minister and to be valued by each as a confidential adviser. Captain Roskill, the author of this book and the leading authority on naval policy between 1914 and 1945, has been given complete freedom to use the diary and all the other papers that Lord Hankey took with him into retirement. Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC, FRS (1 April 1877 - 26 January 1963) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office. He is best known as the highly-efficient top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet, which directed Britain during the First World War. In the estimation of his biographer John F. Naylor, Hankey held to the "certainties of a late Victorian imperialist, whose policies sought to maintain British domination abroad and to avoid as far as possible British entanglement within Europe. His patriotism stands inviolable, but his sensitivity to processes of historical change proved limited". Naylor found, "Hankey did not altogether grasp the virulence of fascism... except as a military threat to Britain; nor did he ever quite comprehend the changing face of domestic politics which Labour's emergence as a party of government entailed.... In these shortcomings Hankey was typical of his generation and background; that his responsibility was greater lay in the fact that he was better informed than nearly any of his contemporaries". In 1908, he was appointed Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence and became Secretary to the Committee in 1912, a position that he would hold for the 26 years. In November 1914, he took on the additional duty of Secretary of the War Council. In that function, he took notice of the ideas of Major Ernest Swinton to build a tracked armoured vehicle and brought them to the attention of Winston Churchill on 25 December 1914. That led to the eventual creation of the Landships Committee. Lloyd George's War Cabinet
In December 1916, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister and greatly changed how the government was run. A small War Cabinet was instigated, and Hankey was appointed as its Secretary and served as Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet, which also incorporated representatives of the Colonies and Dominion governments. He gained such a reputation for strong competency that when the full Cabinet was restored in 1919, the secretariat was retained, and Hankey then served as Secretary to the Cabinet for 19 years. In 1923, he acquired the further position of Clerk of the Privy Council. During his long tenure, he would also often serve as British Secretary to many international conferences and Secretary-General of many Imperial Conferences.

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Inventario del vendedor #
79841
Título
Hankey; Man of Secrets, Volume 1, 1877-1918
Autor
Roskill, Stephen
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Bien
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Fair
Cantidad disponible
1
Edición
Presumed First Edition, First printing
ISBN 10
0870219340
ISBN 13
9780870219344
Editorial
Naval Institute Press
Lugar de publicación
Annapolis, Maryland
Fecha de publicación
1970
Palabras clave
WW1, WW2, Lord Hankey, Great Britain, War Cabinet, Naval Policy, Maurice Hankey, Arthur Balfour, Bonar Law, Curzon, John Fisher, Foch, Douglas Haig, Edward Grey, Jellicoe, Kitchener, Lloyd George, Milner, William Robertson, Jan Smuts, Henry Wilson

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