Second World War Carrier Operations

David Wragg

ISBN 10: 1844150526 / ISBN 13: 9781844150526

Published by Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2004

About this Item

Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2004. Hard cover. book condition : Very good to near fine, a very clen copy. Book will be sent by Uk postal service. Bookseller Inventory #008086. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Second World War Carrier Operations
• Publisher: Pen & Sword, Barnsley
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844150526
• ISBN 13: 9781844150526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: N/A
• Edition: 2004.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: N/A

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Synopsis

Without the aircraft carrier, the Japanese would not have brought the United States into the Second World War through their attack on Pearl Harbour; without the carrier, the United States could not have rolled back the Japanese forces spread across the wide reaches of the Pacific and carried the war to Japan itself. Thus is can be argued that aircraft carriers were the decisive naval weapons system of the Second World War. Yet they had an uncertain start, with HMS Courageous sunk two weeks after the outbreak of war, followed by her sister, Glorious the following spring.

This book is an authoritative, concise and hugely readable account of carrier operations throughout WW2. The text is given immediacy by the use of eyewitness accounts.

About the Author

David Wragg has published several highly praised books on railway history, and he produced a textbook for the old Chartered Institute of Transport. He has also written on railways for the Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, The Scotsman, and the Yorkshire Post. His Wartime on the Railways was reviewed by Rail as 'very readable' and by Railways Illustrated as 'as a fascinating insight and also an important record', and Railways Illustrated chose his Southern Railway Handbook as 'Book of the Month'.

One of his most recent publications is The Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles. He is also well known as a writer of military history and provide the British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand material for On Seas Contested- The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War, published in 2010 by the Naval Institute Press in the United States and which won the Stonebooks award for "The Best Non-Fiction book on World War II" to have been published that year.'