The  Coward? The Rise and Fall of the Silver King, Steve R. Dunn.
A look at the life and mistakes of Admiral  Ernest Troubridge, a British admiral best known for his failure to intercept  the Goeben in
 the Mediterranean at the start of the First World War. The  aim is to 
try and work out why Troubridge acted as he did in 1914, examining  the 
late Victorian and Edwardian navy, his own career and decisions he made 
 elsewhere in his life to try and work out what made him tick
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