Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.
S'està carregant… A Sailor's Odysseyde Andrew Browne Cunningham
Cap S'està carregant…
Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. In spite of works more specialised in tone, a Sailor's Odyssey remains a book I have read three times. I refer to it as the subject seems to be well informed, especially about his tenure of the Mediterranean Fleet command from 1939 to March, 1942. He's a gentleman, and has no axes to grind as he coped as well as possible with the many misfortunes of the period. There's also wealth of information on "torch" and "Husky". A well-mannered memoir from one of the more well-mannered and skilled killers of the war. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
A Sailor's Odyssey is the stirring autobiography of this great fighting seaman from his boyhood in Dublin and his early career in the Navy and his service in the First World War, through his commands in the inter-war years, to the great sea battles in the Mediterranean, and then his elevation to First Sea Lord in 1943 and his subsequent responsibility for the operational policy of the Royal Navy during the later stages of the War. He attended the conferences at Casablanca, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta, and gives revealing glimpses of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. His was, truly, a remarkable career. This is a beautifully written and absorbing naval memoir, and it made a significant contribution to the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War when it was first published in 1951; this new paperback edition, with an introduction by his great nephew Admiral Jock Slater, will fascinate and delight a new generation of readers and bring into focus again a great British fighting admiral. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
Debats actualsCapCobertes populars
Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)923.542History and Geography Biography, genealogy, insignia People in social sciences Administration: army and navy, civil service EuropeLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
Ets tu?Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing. |