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The Price Of Admiralty : The Evolution Of Navel Warfare by John Keegan hardcover
Price of Admiralty : the Evolution of Naval Warfare
by John Keegan (1989, Hardcover)
Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: The Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic..
Contents:
Introduction: Battle at sea
Introduction: Battle at sea
- Trafalgar: The wooden world ; The strategic background ; Nelson versus Napoleon ; Nelson versus Villeneuve ; Naval warfare in the Age of Sail ; Battle off Cape Trafalgar ; What had happened? ; The aftermath
- Jutland: The fall of the wooden walls ; High Seas Fleet versus Royal Navy ; The War of Sea before Jutland ; The ironclad world ; The battle of Jutland ; The experience of action: Battlecruisers versus battlecruisers. Battleships versus battleships. The smaller ships ; The aftermath
- Midway: The coming of the aircraft carrier ; The two navies ; The Pacific War before Midway ; The Midway Campaign ; The Battle of Midway: The battle over Midway Island. The great carrier battle. The retreat from Midway ; Counting the cost
- The Battle of the Atlantic : Convoys SC122 and HX229: The emergence of the submarine ; Do¨nitz and the U-boat Service ; The Battle of the Atlantic ; The underwater war: Convoy. U-boats. Escorts. Anti-submarine weapons. Aircraft. Radio intelligence. Decryption ; The Battle for Convoys HX229 and SC122: HX229 and SC221. The wolf-packs. The encounter. The massacre of HX229. The ordeal of SC122. The coming of the aircraft ; The balance of the battle
Conclusion: An empty ocean
About The Author:
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (1934–2012), was one of the most distinguished contemporary military historians and was for many years the senior lecturer at Sandhurst (the British Royal Military Academy) and the defense editor of the Daily Telegraph (London). Keegan was the author of numerous books including The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, and was a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.
From Publishers Weekly:
The author of The Mask of Command here describes and analyzes four landmark naval engagements, each featuring a different type of ship. The engagements: the 1805 British victory over the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar; the WW I battle of Jutland; the decisive defeat by U.S. naval forces, mainly carrier planes, of a Japanese task force at Midway in 1942; and the prolonged struggle between Allied convoys and German U-boats in WW II known as the Battle of the Atlantic. Tracing the evolution from wooden sailing ships to ironclad steamships and then to aircraft carriers and submarines, Keegan includes a detailed description of life abroad the ships and provides the strategic background of each of the battles. He is especially keen on the shipwright's art, explaining among other things how the vessels were constructed to withstand bombardment. In this, his first book-length venture into naval history, Keegan writes as authoritatively as his admirers have come to expect. His chapter on Trafalgar is especially fine.
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (1934–2012), was one of the most distinguished contemporary military historians and was for many years the senior lecturer at Sandhurst (the British Royal Military Academy) and the defense editor of the Daily Telegraph (London). Keegan was the author of numerous books including The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, The Price of Admiralty, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, and was a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.
From Publishers Weekly:
The author of The Mask of Command here describes and analyzes four landmark naval engagements, each featuring a different type of ship. The engagements: the 1805 British victory over the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar; the WW I battle of Jutland; the decisive defeat by U.S. naval forces, mainly carrier planes, of a Japanese task force at Midway in 1942; and the prolonged struggle between Allied convoys and German U-boats in WW II known as the Battle of the Atlantic. Tracing the evolution from wooden sailing ships to ironclad steamships and then to aircraft carriers and submarines, Keegan includes a detailed description of life abroad the ships and provides the strategic background of each of the battles. He is especially keen on the shipwright's art, explaining among other things how the vessels were constructed to withstand bombardment. In this, his first book-length venture into naval history, Keegan writes as authoritatively as his admirers have come to expect. His chapter on Trafalgar is especially fine.
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Data sheet
- Author
- John Keegan
- Topic
- General
Military / Naval - Format
- Hardcover
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction
History - Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
- Book Title
- Price of Admiralty : the Evolution of Naval Warfare
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