The challenges of command the Royal Navy's executive branch officers, 1880-1919 - Davison, Robert L. (Ashgate, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Social change and the officer corps -- The nineteenth century officer corps -- Upright in prosperity and peril -- "Oh, these magicians and necromancers, they are ruining us" : engineers and sailors in conflict -- The reinvention of the officer corps -- History as a professional tool -- Journals and staffs : organizational change 1911-1914 -- "Auxillium ab alto" : the experience of war