Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for War Against Japan

by Andrew Field

Overview

Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the world. But with the League of Nations seeming to offer a solution to all future conflicts, a country weary of war and without an obvious enemy there seemed no need for a large battlefleet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135774073
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2004
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Andrew Field

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, List of Maps, List of Tables, Series Editor’s Preface, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Influence of a Far Eastern Strategy on British Naval Policy, 2. A Far Eastern Strategy: War Memorandum (Eastern), 3. Admiral Richmond and War Memorandum (Eastern), 4. Developing the Far Eastern Strategy: War Memorandum (Eastern) and Changing Circumstances, 1931–41, 5. Battle Fleet Tactics and a War in the Far East, 6. The Royal Navy’s Strategic and Tactical Exercises, 7. Japanese Naval Strategy and Tactics in the Far East, 8. Main Fleet to Singapore: The Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse and the End of War Memorandum (Eastern), Conclusion: War Memorandum (Eastern) and the Royal Navy’s Strategic, Operational and Tactical Development, Select Bibliography, Index

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"There is some useful information found between [the book's] hard covers." --International Journal of Maritime History

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