This first scholarly account of the Royal Navy in the Pacific War
is a companion volume to Arthur Marder's Old Friends, New Enemies:
Strategic Illusions, 1936-1941 (0-19-822604-7, OP). Picking up the
story at the nadir of British naval fortunes - `everywhere weak and
naked', in Churchill's phrase - it examines the Royal Navy's role
in events from 1942 to the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
Drawing on both British and Japanese sources and personal accounts
by participants, the authors vividly retell the story of the
collapse of Allied defences in the Dutch East Indies, culminating
in the Battle of the Java Sea. They recount the attempts of the
`fighting admiral', Sir James Somerville, to train his motley fleet
of cast-offs into an efficient fighting force in spite of the
reluctance of Churchill, who resisted the formation of a full-scale
British Pacific Fleet until the 1945 assault on the Ryukyu Islands
immediately south of Japan. Meticulously researched and fully
referenced, this unique and absorbing account provides a
controversial analysis of the key personalities who shaped events
in these momentous years, and makes fascinating reading for anyone
interested in the Pacific War. This book also appears in the Oxford
General Books catalogue for Autumn 1990.
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