The Pacific War, 1942-1945
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The Pacific War, 1942-1945
（Old friends, new enemies : the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, v. 2）
Clarendon Press, 1990
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V. 1: Strategic illusions, 1936-1941
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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内容説明
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 1945
assault on the Ryukyu Islands immediately south of Japan.
Meticulously researched and fully referenced, this unique and absorbing account provides a controversial analysis of the key personalities who shaped events in these momentous years, and makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Pacific War.
This book also appears in the Oxford General Books catalogue for Autumn 1990.
目次
- Plates
- Maps and figures
- Abbreviations and operational code names
- Part One. The Rising Sun (December 1941 - April 1942): The grim Allied outlook
- The road to the Java Sea
- The Indian Ocean
- (Playing) cat and mouse
- Reactions and reflections
- Part Two. Holding the Ring (May 1942 - August 1944): The Admiralty of the Indian Ocean
- In the Doldrums
- To Colombo and beyond
- An uncertain trumpet
- Somerville and Mountbatten: Denouement
- Part Three. The Setting Sun August 1944 - August 1945): The British Pacific Fleet: inception
- Prospects of defeat, obligations of honour
- Main fleet to Okinawa
- The East Indies fleet
- The Imperial Navy and the way to peace
- Sunset over Fujiyama
- Conclusion: reluctant enemies
- Appendix. The Royal Navy prisoners of war
- Bibliography
- Index
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