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A big Massie fan here.

IMHO, his best is Peter the Great , but Dreadnought and Castles of Steel are really up there as well.

Castles of Steel (the "sequel" to Dreadnought) takes a while to get going, but is very, very good once one gets into it. I personally would have liked for him to have more post-Jutland details (e.g. even more on the submarine campaign), but I guess he had to limit the book to the almost 900 pages it is!

At age 82, I'm very happy to see that he's still up to releasing a new book. I'm looking forward to Catherine the Great, as the other bio I started to read about her wasn't very engaging or well structured.

I admit, however, that I haven't read the bio of Catherine the Great written by Henri Troyat, which has gotten very good reviews.

What did you think about his books on the last of the Romanovs?