Bilde av Old Friends, New Enemies. The Royal Navy And The Imperial Japanese Navy Av Arthur J. (late Professor Of History Late Professor Of History The Universi

Old Friends, New Enemies. The Royal Navy And The Imperial Japanese Navy Av Arthur J. (late Professor Of History Late Professor Of History The Universi

This first scholarly account of the Royal Navy in the Pacific War is a companion volume to Arthur Marder''s Old Friends, New Enemies: Strategic Illusions, 1936-1941 (0-19-822604-7, OP). Picking up the story at the nadir of British naval fortunes - `everywhere weak and naked'', in Churchill''s phrase - it examines the Royal Navy''s role in events from 1942 to the Japanese surrender in August 1945.Drawing on both British and Japanese sources and personal accounts by participants, the authors vividly retell the story of the collapse of Allied defences in the Dutch East Indies, culminating in the Battle of the Java Sea. They recount the attempts of the `fighting admiral'', Sir James Somerville, to train his motley fleet of cast-offs into an efficient fighting force in spite of the reluctance of Churchill, who resisted the formation of a full-scale British Pacific Fleet until the 1945assault on the Ryukyu Islands immediately south of Japan.Meticulously researched and fully referenced, this

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