Michael Simpson

A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham (eBook, PDF)

A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conferences with Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135775971
• Artikelnr.: 42983570

Autorenporträt

Michael Simpson read History at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and recently retired as Reader in American History at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the Honorary General Editor of the Navy Records Society's volumes and is author of seven books, including: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1989), Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1917-1919 (1991), The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville (1995) and The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Vol. I: The Mediterranean Fleet, 1939--1942 (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Apprenticed to the Queen's Navy (1883
1908) 2. Cunningham, Destroyers and the Mediterranean: A symbiotic relationship (1908
1918) 3. Cowan's Protégé (1919
1933) 4. The Mediterranean: Challenges and crises (1934
1939) 5. The Finest Appointment (June 1939
June 1940) 6. Mussolini's War (June to December 1940) 7. Triumph into Tragedy (January to May 1941) 8. The Caged Tiger (June 1941
April 1942) 9. King and the King's Navy (June to October 1942) 10. Torch: The invasion of North Africa (October 1942
May 1943) 11. Husky: The invasion of Sicily (May to August 1943) 12. Avalanche: The invasion of Italy (September to October 1943) 13. Becoming First Sea Lord (October 1943
June 1944) 14. The Pinnacle of a Career (June 1944
May 1946) 15. Facing the Future (January 1945
June 1946) 16. The Long Ebb Tide (June 1946
June 1963)