$65.06
- Paperback
462 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2017
Summary
In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action.
How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy and dogged persistence all…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526702838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526702835 |
| Author: | David Hobbs |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 462 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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A modern classic of naval historya must read for Australian naval professionals and an important source for those interested in naval operations in the 21st centuryAustralian Naval Institute
”…A modern classic of naval history… a must read for Australian naval professionals and an important source for those interested in naval operations in the 21st century…” - Australian Naval Institute
David Hobbs
DAVID HOBBS, after serving in the Royal Navy as a pilot for 33 years, became the Curator of the Fleet Air Arm Museum for a further eight. He has since established himself as an authoritative writer and journalist on naval aviation topics, with more than twenty highly regarded books to his name. The most recent of these was The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945, published by Seaforth in 2015.
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