The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters : Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942 / Andrew Boyd ; foreword by N A M Rodger.

"The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters tells the compelling story of how the Royal Navy secured the strategic space from Egypt in the west to Australasia in the East through the first half of World War II. It explains why this contribution, made while the Soviet Union's fate remained in the balance and b...

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Main Author: Boyd, Andrew (Andrew Jonathan Corrie) (Author)
Other Authors: Rodger, N. A. M., 1949-
Language:English
Published: Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, 2017.
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Physical Description:xxi, 538 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |a Machine generated contents note:  |g pt. I  |t Preparing for Two-Hemisphere War --  |g 1.  |t The Royal Navy 1935 -- 39: The Right Navy for the Right War --  |g 2.  |t The Naval Defence of the Eastern Empire 1935 -- 40: Managing Competing Risks --  |g pt. II  |t Existential War in the West --  |g 3.  |t Securing Eastern Empire War Potential after the Fall of France --  |g 4.  |t The American Relationship, ABC-1 and the Resurrection of an Eastern Fleet --  |g pt. III  |t July 1941: The Road to Disaster in the East --  |g 5.  |t Royal Navy Readiness for a War with Japan in Mid-1941: Intelligence and Capability --  |g 6.  |t Summer and Autumn 1941: Reinforcement and Deterrence --  |g 7.  |t The Deployment of Force Z and its Consequences: Inevitable Disaster? --  |g pt. IV  |t An Inescapable Commitment: The Indian Ocean in 1942 --  |g 8.  |t The Defence of the Indian Ocean in 1942. 
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