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Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships
actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role
in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British
naval policy and planning of the time.
This book reviews the role of the battleship in the Royal Navy
during the 1919-39 period. It offers fresh insights into why the
capital ship was deemed central to British naval planning even late
in that era.
Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of
leading officers, the author examines the navy's operational
experience and the evolution of its tactical doctrine during the
interwar period. He argues that operational experience, combined
with assumptions about the nature of a future naval war, were more
important in keeping the battleship afloat than conservatism in
Navy.
The author studies the many strategic threats facing the Royal Navy
at this time and the differing approaches the Navy adopted to
counter these, using the battleship. He concludes that previous
historians, in neglecting the tactical and operational experience
of the Royal Navy, and with full knowledge of the World War II,
have painted a distorted picture of the place of the battleship
between the two world wars.
Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships
actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role
in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British
naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official
Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the
author examines the navy's operational experience and the evolution
of its tactical doctrine during the interwar period. He argues that
operational experience, combined with assumptions about the nature
of a future naval war, were more important in keeping the
battleship afloat than conservatism in Navy.
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Graduation Suite (Sheet music)
Edward Elgar, Jean Joseph Mouret, Michael Story
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R1,592
R1,366
Discovery Miles 13 660
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Thinking, Wisely, Planning Boldly examines the style, content and
manner of Royal Navy executive officer higher education and
training between the World Wars. Based on official and private
archival records, oral histories and the secondary literature
extant, this book traces the changes the Navy made in how it
prepared its midlevel officers following the First World War,
contrasts this approach with that of the British Army and Royal Air
Force and addresses the use the Royal Navy made of the officers so
trained. In the process, the work offers a fundamental reappraisal
of the inter war Royal Navy challenging many of the accepted
conclusions rendered by earlier authors who failed to actually
examine the style and content of officer education and did not
weigh the many competing factors the service had to balance in any
professional development program. Along the way, it offers insight
into the relative centrality of the Battle of Jutland in inter war
training and concludes that contrary to received wisdom its role
was a secondary one at best and that the experience of most
relevance in the Navy s educational efforts was the Dardanelles
campaign. This work is original in scope and original in
interpretation with no other book-length volume in print now or
previously covering the subject. Beyond saying something valuable
about the 1919-39 Royal Navy, it discusses issues that resound with
contemporary military officers faced with the eternal question of
what to teach, how to teach it, and the pitfalls faced in preparing
officers in an uncertain world. It sheds fresh light on such noted
figures as Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond and Major General J. F. C.
Fuller and offers insight into such events as the Washington Naval
Treaty and the Invergordon Mutiny not previously considered. Though
many writers have had much to say about inter war training, none
actually took the time to examine what was taught, how instruction
was imparted, and the aims that the Navy sought to achieve.
Thinking Wisely, Planning Boldly fills the void and in the process
speaks to the continuing issues facing professional military
education."
Towards a Wider War examines British policy, grand strategy,
military operations and tactical execution in the critical period
of the `Phoney War' - culminating in Scandinavia and the forlorn
campaign in Norway. Recognizing that political and military leaders
rarely plan for failure, the work assesses the strengths and
weaknesses of British performance in the last year of peace and
during the first critical months of war. Fundamentally, major
problems were evidenced across the spectrum of war, but perhaps the
greatest failing demonstrated remained in the higher direction of
war and the mismatch between avowed strategy and operational
capability. Based on official and unofficial records - and a review
of the existing secondary literature - Towards a Wider War offers a
reasoned and balanced assessment of British war-making at the start
of the Second World War. Following a summation of the actual
experience of war, the work investigates and assesses the style and
manner of Britain's higher direction of war and the effectiveness
of each of the services at the strategic, operational and tactical
levels of war - as well as their abilities to cooperate in the
joint environment. Along the way, fresh insight is offered into the
centrality of economic warfare in British planning; the place of
the War Cabinet in executing oversight of the war; and the workings
of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the role of the Joint Planning
Committee. Of the services, the Royal Navy was most prepared for
war in a European theatre in 1939. Force structure alone made this
so, yet German aggression against Poland demonstrated the
limitations of maritime power. Both the British Army and the Royal
Air Force were undergoing major expansion programs when war arose
and, for the former, it was thought three years would be required
before deficiencies were alleviated. Sustaining public support
during the interim was by no means assured - and in the background
stood the necessity to avoid another bloodletting on the Western
Front. These factors loomed large in London in late 1939 and that
Italy - a presumed belligerent - had opted for neutrality painted
initial strategic plans false. Increasingly, Britain (and France)
looked to defeat Germany by removing her access to those
commodities that made modern warfare possible: petroleum, iron ore
and finance. That it increasingly appeared Nazi Germany was allied
to Communist Russia only made the problem of making war more
vexing. Towards a Wider War offers a unique single-volume analysis
of British war-making at the pivotal beginning of the Second World
War when all remained to be won - or lost - in the far north.
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Rondeau (Sheet music)
Jean Joseph Mouret, David Marlatt
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R364
R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
Save R75 (21%)
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This incredibly famous trumpet solo is now available for the
developing brass quintet. The range demands have been reduced to
allow younger performers to tackle this piece. The main melody is
passed between the 2 trumpets and other sections have the musical
line passed throughout the remainder of the group. Now this tune is
accessible to not just professional brass quintets but the younger
ensembles as well.
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