Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty by Stephen Wentworth Roskill Published by Atheneum on 1981
Pages: 430
Although originally written almost forty years ago, this book remains an important work on a controversial figure. Roskill was sympathetic to his subject, but does not shy away from the less attractive aspects of Beatty’s personality. A balanced portrait of a man who served successively as commander of the British battlecruisers, then as commander-in-chief of the British Grand Fleet, and after the war became a successful First Sea Lord.
(Notes by Steve McLaughlin)
