Attack on Taranto (Stackpole Classics) - Softcover

Lowry, Thomas P.; Wellham, John

 
9780811726610: Attack on Taranto (Stackpole Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811726614 ISBN 13: 9780811726610
Verlag: Stackpole Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Verlag
Stackpole Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811726614
ISBN 13 
9780811726610
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
174
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
info@simonandschuster.nl

Herculesplein 96
Utrecht
3584 AA
Niederlande

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