Christopher M. Bell

Churchill and Sea Power

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Produktbeschreibung

The first major study of Winston Churchill's record as a naval strategist - and his impact as the most prominent guardian of Britain's sea power in the modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199678501
• ISBN-10: 0199678502
• Artikelnr.: 39355158

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Bell is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars (2000) and co-editor of Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: Sea Power in the Age of Churchill
* 1: Apprenticeship: 1901-1914
* 2: Learning Curve: The First World War
* 3: Adjusting to the Post-war World, 1919-24
* 4: The Treasury Years: The Ten Year rule, the Japanese 'Bogey', and
the 'Yankee Menace'
* 5: Disarmament, Rearmament, and the Path to War: The 1930s
* 6: First Lord of the Admiralty, 1939-1940: The Phoney War and the
Norwegian Campaign
* 7: The War against Germany and Italy, 1940-1941
* 8: Courting Disaster: The Deterrence of Japan and the Dispatch of
Force Z
* 9: The Battle of the Atlantic, the Imports Crisis, and the Closing of
the 'Air Gap'
* 10: The Defeat of the Axis Powers
* 11: Churchill's Last Naval Battle
* Epilogue: The Verdict of History
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index