A Life Of Admiral Of The Fleet Andrew Cunningham

Author : Michael Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159116
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham written by Michael Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of the life of naval commander Andrew Cunningham, the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. It supplements Cunningham's papers by Cabinet and Admiralty records, papers of his service contemporaries and of Churchill.

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399092960
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Sailor's Odyssey written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of the Admiral was unveiled in Trafalgar Square close by his predecessor in 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh. It was during the dark days of 1940–41, after the surrender of France and Italy’s entry into the War and when Britain was fighting single-handed, that Cunningham held the Eastern Mediterranean with a fleet greatly inferior to the Italian; his lack of ships and aircraft was more than made up for by his bold and vigorous command. Taranto, Matapan, Crete, North Africa – these are the critical battles and regions with which he is so closely associated. A Sailor’s Odyssey is the stirring autobiography of this great fighting seaman from his boyhood in Dublin and his early career in the Navy and his service in the First World War, through his commands in the inter-war years, to the great sea battles in the Mediterranean, and then his elevation to First Sea Lord in 1943 and his subsequent responsibility for the operational policy of the Royal Navy during the later stages of the War. He attended the conferences at Casablanca, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta, and gives revealing glimpses of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. His was, truly, a remarkable career. This is a beautifully written and absorbing naval memoir, and it made a significant contribution to the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War when it was first published in 1951; this new paperback edition, with an introduction by his great nephew Admiral Jock Slater, will fascinate and delight a new generation of readers and bring into focus again a great British fighting admiral.

Author : Oliver Warner
Publisher : London : Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet written by Oliver Warner and published by London : Murray. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Browne Cunningham Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount)
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754655985
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cunningham Papers written by Andrew Browne Cunningham Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount) and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Cunningham's papers covers the period from his brief term in 1942 as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington and his subsequent appointment as Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force, through his time as First Sea Lord from October 1943 to his retirement from active service in June 1946. The collection includes official documents but also many letters to his family and brother officers that exhibit his feelings, as well as his illuminating diary entries from April 1944 onwards.

Author : Oliver Warner
Publisher : Athens : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Admiral of the Fleet: Cunningham of Hyndhope written by Oliver Warner and published by Athens : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399092951
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Sailor's Odyssey written by Andrew Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sailor's Odyssey is the stirring autobiography of this great fighting seaman from his boyhood in Dublin and his early career in the Navy and his service in the First World War, through his commands in the inter-war years, to the great sea battles in the Mediterranean, and then his elevation to First Sea Lord in 1943 and his subsequent responsibility for the operational policy of the Royal Navy during the later stages of the War. He attended the conferences at Casablanca, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta, and gives revealing glimpses of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. His was, truly, a remarkable career. This is a beautifully written and absorbing naval memoir, and it made a significant contribution to the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War when it was first published in 1951; this new paperback edition, with an introduction by his great nephew Admiral Jock Slater, will fascinate and delight a new generation of readers and bring into focus again a great British fighting admiral.

Author : Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204510
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Sailor’s Odyssey written by Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of a distinguished commander of WWII. Serving in both wars, he was Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean at the outbreak of war, forced to cope with inadequate resources and virtually no air cover. After a short spell in Washington as a Naval Representative he returned as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean and worked with Eisenhower and Alexander. His unique insight into the meetings with Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt make this a riveting read. “My main reasons for yielding to the suggestion [of setting down this record of my life] were because I wished to do justice to those under whom I served and from whom I learnt so much in my earlier years at sea, and also to pay a deserved tribute to those many whom I later had the honour and privilege to command in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Further, before memory became dimmed by the passage of time, I was anxious to describe what I saw of the part played by the Royal Navy in the two great wars of the present century which lasted in all for more than ten years. “In describing the years of war I have kept as closely as possible to those matters with which, and in which, the Navy was primarily concerned and engaged. Moreover, as nearly as may be, I have tried to concentrate upon that portion of the Navy with which I happened to be serving. [...] success in war cannot be attributed to any single Service. Each one is helpless without the closest and most loyal co-operation with the other two. This applies equally to our two great Sea Services. In war the Royal and the Merchant Navies have always been interdependent and indivisible.”

Author : Michael Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000340856
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cunningham Papers written by Michael Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following America's entry into World War Two, there was a necessity for the Royal Navy to strengthen co-operation with the United States Navy. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's brief term as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington was to endear him to the Americans so much so that they proposed him as Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force which was to invade North Africa in November 1942. In October 1943, Cunningham was summoned to replace the dying Pound as First Sea Lord, a position he held until his retirement from active service in June 1946. In that time he presided over the invasion of Normandy, operations in the Mediterranean, the sinking of the Scharnhorst and Tirpitz, the defeat of the late surge of U-boat activity, the British Pacific Fleet, and the problems of manpower, the futures of the Royal Marines and the Fleer Air Arm, and the conversion of the Royal Navy from its swollen wartime strength to a much-reduced peacetime cadre. Cunningham remained concerned over the future of the country's defence and that of the Royal Navy and he was able to speak in major defence debates in the House of Lords. He died suddenly in 1963 and was buried at sea. Cunningham was one of Britain's great sailors, a worthy successor to Nelson, whom he admired and many of whose qualities he displayed. This second volume of Cunningham's papers covers the period of his life described above. It includes official documents but also many letters to his family and brother-officers that exhibit his feelings, as well as his illuminating diary entries from April 1944 onwards.

Author : John Winton
Publisher : Sapere Books
ISBN 13 : 9781800553996
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cunningham written by John Winton and published by Sapere Books. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing biography of one of the most important naval leaders of the Second World War. Perfect for people who enjoy biographies of Chester W. Nimitz, Isoroku Yamamoto or other legendary World War Two admirals. 'In the Eastern Mediterranean we found in Admiral Andrew Cunningham an officer of the highest qualities and dauntless courage.' Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War After serving in the Boer War and World War One with distinction, Andrew Browne Cunningham, popularly known as ABC, served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet when the outlook for British forces looked bleakest at the start of the Second World War. A brilliant naval tactician, Cunningham led his fleet to smash the Italian Navy at Taranto, the first completely all-aircraft naval attack in history, and later at Cape Matapan. He successfully evacuated the army from Greece and later from Crete and worked tirelessly to keep supply lines to besieged Allied forces in Malta and Tobruk open. As the tide of the war began to turn he directed naval support for Eisenhower's landings in North Africa and Italy. From 1943, ABC became First Sea Lord and professional head of the Royal Navy, overseeing the final defeat of Nazi Germany's naval forces and assisting with setting the strategy for defeating the Japanese in the Far East. Drawing information from Cunningham's personal letters and wartime diaries has allowed John Winton to provide vivid insight into all of this naval leader's merits and flaws. Additional material from official sources and contemporary memoirs gives a thorough and unique perspective of the Second World War at sea.

Author : Andrew Browne Cunningham Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cunningham Papers written by Andrew Browne Cunningham Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: