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Author Stevens, David Editor

Title The Royal Australian Navy in World War II / edited by David Stevens
Published St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, [1996]
©1996

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 W'PONDS  940.545994 Ste/Ran  AVAILABLE
Description xxvii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Australian naval policy 1939-45 / James Goldrick -- The Pacific War: a strategic overview / Jozef H. Straczek -- Forging an alliance? the American naval commitment to the South Pacific, 1940-42 / Ian Cowman -- The effect on War War II on RAN-RN relations / Alastair Cooper -- The contribution of industry to Navy's war in the Pacfic / Chris Coulthard-Clark -- The royal Australian Navy in the Mediterranean in Worl War II / eric Grove -- Savi in retrospect / Bruce Loxton -- South-West Pacific sea frontiers: seapower in the Australian context / David Stevens -- The forgotten bases: the Royal Navies in the Pacific, 1945 / David Brown -- 'Something peculiar to themselves': the social background of the Navy's officers in Waorl War II / Jason Sears -- Willing volunteers, resisting society, reluctant Navy: the troubled first years of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service / Kathryn Spurling -- Vice-Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins, KBE, CB, RAN / A.W. Grazebrook -- The intrigue master: Commander R.B.M. Long of Naval Intelligence / Barbara Winter -- The RAN Hydrographic Branch, 1942-45 / John G. Betty -- Touching on Fairmiles / Marsden Hordern -- The Royal Australian Navy in World War II: a summary / Frank Broeze
Summary Sheds new light on the vital importance of the Australian role in supporting maritime campaigns in every theatre through essays on the Australian experience in naval war written by 16 leading naval histories from Australia and overseas
Analysis Australia Royal Australian Navy History World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Australian
Naval warfare
Royal Australian Navy
World War 2
Notes CIP confirmed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Australia. Royal Australian Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Australia. Royal Australian Navy -- History.
Australia. Royal Australian Navy.
History.
Navy
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian.
World War, 1939-1945.
SUBJECT Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- History, Naval. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005865
Author Stevens, David, 1958-
LC no. 96157571
ISBN 1864480351
1864482818 (paperback)
Other Titles Royal Australian Navy in World War Two