Examines and illustrates the work of the last four officers to hold the post of naval attache in Berlin before the cataclysm of 1914, Captains Dumas, Heath, Watson and Henderson. This volume illustrates a fundamental dimension of the Anglo-German naval race before the First World War: the role of the navy's 'man on the spot' in Berlin. 'This impressive collection is the result of prodigious labor in various British archives... This, then, is an extremely useful collection of primary documents meant to provide insight into British thinking about Germany and its navy during the Anglo-German naval arms race before World War I... The scholarly value of the documents collected in this volume is enormous.' H-Net 'Any naval historian must be grateful to the editor for this volume, for he has enlarged our knowledge of an important period in Anglo-German relations before the Great War.' International Journal of Maritime History 'The scholarly value of the documents collected in this volume is enormous.' geschichte.transnational 'By recovering these documents, Seligmann has added a major strand to our ability to understand the Anglo-German Naval Race. By publishing such a large sample (over 200 separate reports), the Navy Records Society has once again demonstrated the value of a specialist academic society, and the critical role of naval issues in British history. This will be an essential resource for all scholars dealing with Anglo-German relations in the Dreadnought era.' English Historical Review