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Neglected Skies - The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922-1942 (Hardcover)
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Neglected Skies - The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922-1942 (Hardcover)
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Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the
British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air
Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion
about declining British military power in the era. In this book,
Angus Britts explores the end of British naval supremacy from an
operational perspective. By primarily analyzing the evolution of
British naval aviation during the interwar period, as well as the
challenges that the peacetime Royal Navy was forced to confront, a
picture emerges of a battle fleet that entered the war in September
1939 unready for combat. By examining the development of Japan's
first-strike carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, Britts charts
both the rise of Japan as a wartime power as well as the demise of
the Royal Navy. Japan, by concentrating their six largest
aircraft-carriers into a single strike force with state-of-the-art
aircraft, had taken a quantum leap forward in warfighting at sea.
Simultaneously, British forces found themselves outmatched in this
Eastern theatre and Britts makes the case, by looking at a set of
key battles, that this is where the global supremacy of Britain's
naval power ended.
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