Operation Menace: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair - Softcover

Marder, Arthur J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591147255 ISBN 13: 9781591147251

Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 2015

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Reseña del editor:

Continuing on from Arthur Marder s previous book, From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace 1915 1940 this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from the Vichy Government. A pet operation of Prime Minister Churchill, the operation was undertaken against all advice, and it turned out to be a fiasco. In the author s words, Menace exemplified, in its genesis, planning, and execution, all that can go wrong in warfare; an operation fouled up by unforeseen contingencies, the accidents of war, and human error, and against a background of undue political interference, inadequate planning, and half-baked co-operation between Allies. Using Admiralty and Cabinet papers, as well as private sources of information, Marder weaves a skilled course through all the complex material to produce a masterly case-study of how an operation is mounted and how it can go disastrously wrong. It is a classic, tragicomic illustration of the fog of war.

Biografía del autor:

Born in 1910, Arthur J. Marder was a meticulous researcher, teacher and writer who became perhaps the most distinguished historian of the modern Royal Navy. He held a number of teaching posts in American universities and was to receive countless honors, as well as publish some fifteen major works on British naval history. He died in 1980.

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• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1591147255
• ISBN 13: 9781591147251
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320