The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful

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Автор: David Hobbs

Название: The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful

Издательство: Seaforth Publishing

Год: 2011

Формат: EPUB

Страниц: 480

Размер: 103 Mb

Язык: English

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 played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph, the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet;