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British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 (Paperback)
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 (Paperback)
Series: New Vanguard
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List price R409
Loot Price R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
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The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through
the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action
in Iraq and the Balkans. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the
Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the post-war world.
Royal Navy carriers fought in the Korean War with the UN fleet, in
the debacle at Suez, and in British operations in the last days of
Empire, in Malaya, Borneo and Aden. But most famously, they were
the key to the Royal Navy's victory in the Falklands campaign, and
they went on to fight in the two Iraq wars. Illustrated throughout
with new profiles of the key carriers and their development, as
well as a cutaway of HMS Victorious and superb new illustrations of
the carriers in action, this book explains how the Royal Navy's air
power changed throughout the Cold War and beyond. Renowned naval
historian Angus Konstam explains how the World War II carriers were
rebuilt in a pioneering modernization that allowed them to operate
a new generation of naval jets. As carriers became more expensive
to operate, the Royal Navy had to scrap its conventional fast jets
and introduce a new generation of light carriers designed for the
innovative Harrier 'jump jet'. When the Falklands War broke out, it
was one of these new carriers and one veteran carrier from World
War II that gave the Task Force the fighters it needed to defend
itself in hostile waters and retake the islands. Covering a period
of dramatic change for the Royal Navy, this book is a history of
the Royal Navy's most important ships throughout the Cold War, the
retreat from Empire, and the Falklands and Iraq wars, up to the
moment Royal Navy fixed-wing air power was temporarily axed in
2010.
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