Coronel and Falkland by Barrie Pitt

Coronel and Falkland by Barrie Pitt

In 1914 Great Britain's naval supremacy was challenged for the first time since Trafalgar. A century of Pax Britannica had convinced the public that the Royal Navy was invincible. But it was not, as von Spee demonstrated so ably at Coronel, and in Britain public bewilderment soon turned to anger. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, and Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord, ordered the destruction of von Spee's squadron. The Germans went to attack the Falklands and fell into the waiting clutches of a powerful British fleet, which wreaked a famous revenge upon the Germans.

Barrie Pitt saw active service in both Europe and the Middle East. He edited the partwork HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR and was editor-in-chief of Ballantine's ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. His masterly three volume work on the war in the desert, THE CRUCIBLE, has recently been republished by Cassell.

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ISBN 13	9780304361601
ISBN 10	0304361607
Titel	Coronel and Falkland
Autor	Barrie Pitt
Serie	Cassell Military Paperbacks
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Orion Publishing Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-07-11
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.