Engage the Enemy More Closely - The Royal Navy in the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Correlli Barnett is a world-renowned historian with particular prowess in military, naval, economic and social subjects. Faber Finds are reissuing his four volume The Pride and Fall sequence: The Collapse of British Power , The Audit of War , The Lost Victory , The Verdict of Peace , as well as The Swordbearers , Britain and her Army, 1509-1970 (winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award) and Engage the Enemy More Closely (winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award). Klappentext The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials! together with the obligations of Empire! were less a form of strength to Britain than a weakness. Zusammenfassung The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials, together with the obligations of Empire, were less a form of strength to Britain than a weakness.

Product details

• Authors: Correlli Barnett, Barnett Correlli
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9780571300396
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30039-6
• No. of pages: 1104
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 78 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / Naval, Naval forces & warfare, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Naval forces and warfare, Second World War, 1939-1945, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater