The Battle and the Breeze: The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward AshmoreSutton [in association with] Royal Naval Museum, 1997 - Всего страниц: 282 Sir Edward Ashmore, one of the key figures in the post-war history of the Royal Navy, rose to the highest rank in his chosen profession and later became Chief of the Defence Staff. In this his autobiography he gives a vivid insight into the life of an aspiring naval officer in the 1950s and 60s, and the preoccupations of high command during the 1970s. The Battle and the Breeze sheds much new light on many key aspects of post-1945 naval policy, such as the controversy surrounding CVA01 (the fleet carrier replacement programme), the crucial decision to procure the Sea Harrier, the lack of airborne early warning at the time of the Falklands war, and the Chevaline and Type 22 programmes. Ashmore also makes fair and sound judgements on his contemporaries such as Lord Louis Mountbatten. Not only does The Battle and the Breeze make an important contribution to our understanding of recent naval policy, but it is also potentially the most significant naval historical autobiography of the post-1945 period. |
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... flew up to Learmonth , the airport for Exmouth Gulf . ( This turned out to be the same airport where I had landed in the Lancastrian coming home from the war in 1946 and it was in much the same condition as it had been then . ) After ...
... flew up to Learmonth , the airport for Exmouth Gulf . ( This turned out to be the same airport where I had landed in the Lancastrian coming home from the war in 1946 and it was in much the same condition as it had been then . ) After ...
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... flew back then for a spell at headquarters . There had been changes in the higher ranks in the Fleet : Ray Lygo had taken over as Flag Officer Carriers and Amphibious Ships from Treacher , and there was a certain amount of work to catch ...
... flew back then for a spell at headquarters . There had been changes in the higher ranks in the Fleet : Ray Lygo had taken over as Flag Officer Carriers and Amphibious Ships from Treacher , and there was a certain amount of work to catch ...
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... flew north to Bermuda , to take a good look at our old haunts there . The Rusbys put us up in the " The Cottage ' by the dockyard , the lovely house that we had had , ' Enfield ' , having been lost to the commodore but saved for the ...
... flew north to Bermuda , to take a good look at our old haunts there . The Rusbys put us up in the " The Cottage ' by the dockyard , the lovely house that we had had , ' Enfield ' , having been lost to the commodore but saved for the ...
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