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S. W. Roskill (1903–1982)

Autor de Churchill and the Admirals

28 Obras 520 Miembros 10 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

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 mostrar más 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. mostrar menos

Series

Obras de S. W. Roskill

Churchill and the Admirals (1977) 57 copias
The Navy at War 1939-1945 (1960) 49 copias
The secret capture (1959) 24 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Roskill, Stephen Wentworth
Fecha de nacimiento
1903-08-01
Fecha de fallecimiento
1982-11-04
Género
male
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Organizaciones
Royal Navy
Premios y honores
CBE,1971
Distinguished Service Cross, 1944-03
FBA

Miembros

Reseñas

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.… (más)
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DinadansFriend | Sep 11, 2017 |
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.
 
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DinadansFriend | Jun 25, 2017 |
Leading British oligarch, organizer of secret services, transatlantic manipulator.
 
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chaitkin | May 25, 2017 |
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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DinadansFriend | Aug 2, 2014 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
28
Miembros
520
Popularidad
#47,760
Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
10
ISBNs
55
Idiomas
2
Favorito
1

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