Название: Naval Policy Between the Wars: Volume II: The Period of Reluctant Rearmament 1930-1939
Автор: Stephen Roskill
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 147387744X
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 544
Размер: 8,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories, filling the gap between the First World War volumes and his own study of the Navy in the Second. As such it is marked by the extensive use of British and American sources, from which Roskill extracted shrewd and balanced conclusions that have stood the test of time. Picking up the story in 1930, this volume covers the rise of the European dictatorships on the one hand, alongside continuing attempts at controlling arms expenditure through diplomacy and treaties.