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A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth-century Naval Leader (Naval Policy and History Series)

By Michael Simpson

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0714651974, 9780714651972, 9780203504963
LCC
DA89.1.C8 S56 2004
Open Library ID
OL22596457M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3445424 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
344\306
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conferences with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and the US Chiefs of Staff, deliberating the global strategy for Allied victory.He also led a very active public life for almost twenty years after his retirement in 1946. Cunningham's papers are abundant for the period 1939-63 and are supplemented here by Cabinet and Admiralty records, papers of his service contemporaries and of Churchill, and by memories of his family and friends, as well as extensive US archives and private papers.

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