Full Description
This book examines how the Royal Navy protected our shores and wider interests through the First World War and the one that was to follow, from the northern patrol lifelines of the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean convoys and increasingly sophisticated amphibious operations that would mark it out in the Second. The book ends with chapters on The Falklands War and Royal Navy's anti-piracy role and involvement in humanitarian crises. This visually stunning volume is complemented by 15 loose facsimile documents that include letters and diary entries, war reports and other items of memorabilia that bring an immediacy to the events being described. Without the Royal Navy in two World Wars, Britain would have at best lost, and worst ceased to exist. This book salutes the services's incredible achievements over the last 100 years.
Contents
Contains 15 items of removable facsimile memorabilia, includingshowing ship movements during the Battle of the Falklands, 1914 * hand-drawn map of the Dardanelles campaign * Memorial card for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old at the Battle of Jutland, who became a national hero after he remained at his post to the end of the battle after the rest of his gun crew were killed * illustrated diary entries for the Battle of Jutland * the positions of ships in the German fleet as they sailed into internment * letter detailing the writer's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Bismarck * map showing positions of X-craft during the attack on the Tirpitz.
