Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for War Against Japan

by Andrew Field

Book Overview

Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the world. But with the League of Nations seeming to offer a solution to all future conflicts, a country weary of war and without an obvious enemy there seemed no need for a large battlefleet. The strategic focus shifted eastwards, to Japan, with its growing battlefleet as the new threat to the British Empire and to the Royal Navy's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415407753
• ISBN13: 9780415407755
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"