41.Mackay: Fisher
p.233 & p.256
42.Detailed
work on economic warfare and its relationship in the power struggles, regarding
roles between the Admiralty and War Office, is to be found in Avner Offer: The First World War: An
Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989) chapters 15 to 21.
However, I am far from convinced of Fisher’s commitment to economic warfare.
43.Cdr. P. Kemp
(Editor): The Fisher Papers volume II (Naval Records Society, 1964)
pp.316-317
44.Apart from
the well known feuds with Lord Charles Beresford and Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, many other
officers were perturbed by Fisher’s behaviour. One example is shown in
Chalmers: Life and Letters p.96
45.Mackay: Fisher
pp.319-320