Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939
Subtitle: Preparing for War against Japan (Cass Series--Naval Policy and History, 22)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780714653211
Subjects: British & Irish history: First World War; British & Irish history: Second World War; Naval forces & warfare; Technology & Industrial Arts; Japan; Great Britain.; Royal Navy; Military; East Asia, Far East; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Military Science; History / Military / Naval; Great Britain; Military - Naval; 20th century; Foreign relations; History; History, Naval
First sentence: Japan took its commitment to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance seriously in the Great War, participating in the hunt for Graf Spee's squadron, escorting convoys, seizing German colonies in China and the Pacific and even putting down a mutiny in Singapore.