S. W. Roskill (1903–1982)
Auteur van Churchill and the Admirals
Over de Auteur
Captain Stephen Roskill was born in 1903 and educated at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth. He commanded HMS Warspite at the beginning of the Second World War before being attached to the Naval Staff. After further sea service, he became Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. He toon meer wrote the Official History of the Royal Navy in World War Two in four volumes, and knew Churchill and most of the Royal Navy officers about which he writes. toon minder
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The War at Sea Volume I. The Defensive (HMSO Official History of WWII - Military Book 1) (1954) 52 exemplaren
The War at Sea Volume II. The Period of Balance (HMSO Official History of WWII - Military) (1956) 39 exemplaren
Naval Policy Between the Wars: The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism 1919-1929 (1968) 37 exemplaren
The War at Sea Volume III Part II The Offensive (HMSO Official History of WWII - Military) (1961) 35 exemplaren
The War at Sea Volume III Part I The Offensive (HMSO Official History of WWII - Military) (1960) 31 exemplaren
The Second World War in the Pacific : plans and reality (Maritime Monographs and Reports, No 9, 1974) (1974) 3 exemplaren
The Naval Air Service, 1908-1918 2 exemplaren
The art of leadership 2 exemplaren
Documents relating to the Naval Air Service 1 exemplaar
The War At Sea 1939- 1945 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Roskill, Stephen Wentworth
- Geboortedatum
- 1903-08-01
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1982-11-04
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Organisaties
- Royal Navy
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- CBE,1971
Distinguished Service Cross, 1944-03
FBA
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Naval policy between the wars door Stephen Wentworth Roskill
This Volume one, the period of Anglo-American hostility. It covers in clear prose and with adequate maps the creation of the Washington Naval treaties, and the massive cutbacks in planned world armaments. We are also given a description of the history of the Singapore naval base and of its importance in British naval policy in the interwar period. Roskill also investigates the reasons for the rising irritation of the Japanese with the Anglo-american dispensation in the Far East. Well worth reading.… (meer)
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This is where one begins a serious study of the Commonwealth's war at sea. While there's no mention of the results of Ultra or the other intelligence successes, the text is clear, the Orders of Battle are relatively complete, and the maps are excellent. Capt. Roskill, who commanded HMNZS Leander at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, does his best to describe the efforts of the Royal and Allied Navies and succeeds in doing so. (A three volume set) Read twice.
Leading British oligarch, organizer of secret services, transatlantic manipulator.
This turns into the story of why the UK settled for building the King George V class of battleships, and the inception and reasons for the creation of the carriers with armoured flight decks that served the allies so well off Okinawa. Roskill has the advantage of being a serving officer during this period, and more correctly translates the naval officers' difficulties with the politicking of this period.
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