Attack on Taranto

Informationen zum Autor By Thomas P. Lowry and John Wellham Klappentext On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an inspirational precedent for the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor 13 months later. Taranto demonstrated that battleships in a shallow, heavily defended harbor could be sunk by a handful of torpedo-bombers. That lesson Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, learned well-while the American military virtually ignored it.“By this single stroke the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean was decisively altered.” –Winston S. Churchill Zusammenfassung The November 1940 British attack against the Italian fleet provided a perfect example of surprise and swift devastation -- a lesson not lost on the Japanese.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Lowry, Thomas P Lowry, Thomas P. Lowry, Thomas Wellham Lowry, John Wellham
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2017
• EAN: 9780811726610
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-2661-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Stackpole Classics; Stackpole Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Krieg und militärische Operationen, Moderne Kriegsführung