Focusing on the Royal Navy's crucial role during World War II, the narrative highlights its involvement from the war's outset in 1939 to Japan's surrender in 1945. It details key operations, such as the evacuation at Dunkirk and the sinking of the Bismarck, emphasizing the navy's defense of Britain's vital seaborne trade against German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. The book argues that the war was fundamentally maritime in nature, showcasing the significant sacrifices made by the navy in securing Britain's survival and eventual victory.
Covering the whole span of naval history from 1900 to the present, this book
places the wars and battles fought by the navy within a wider context, looking
at domestic politics, economic issues and international affairs.
Underhand and damned un-English was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. Yet by the 1960s the new nuclear powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first class navy'. [This] ... explores how - and why - attitudes to the submarine changed in Britain between 1900 and 1977. Using a wide array of previously unpublished sources, Redford sheds light on what the British thought about submarines, both their own and those that were used against them. Rather than providing an operational history of Britain's submarines, this book looks at naval and civilian conceptions of what submarine warfare was imagined to be like in the context of unrestricted submarine warfare, the world wars and the development of nuclear weaponry. With chapters on the coronation and jubilee reviews at Spithead, the submarine in novels and films, as well as coverage of the Royal Navy's and civilian views of submarines and submarine warfare this book gives a comprehensive view of the British regard - or lack of it - for the submarine. Through the examination of the British relationship with submarines since 1900 it is possible to see changing patterns in acceptance and tensions between different sub-cultures, both civil and maritime. Since 1900 the meaning constructed around submarines has changed as the submarine has progressed along a road from perdition as the weapon of the weaker power (and morally weaker power too) to a form of redemption as a major capital unit"--Publisher's description
This book contains 138 well-known Irish jigs, reels, hornpipes, set dances, O'Carolan tunes, folksongs, ballads, airs and waltzes. These wonderful Irish melodies are written in harmonica tablature and standard notation for use on the 12-hole chromatic, standard 10-hole diatonic, and tremolo harmonica. Learning these melodies will enhance your playing skills as well as your repertoire. The stereo recording is in split-track format and includes a selection of 25 melodies from the book. Includes access to online audio.
