A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth-century Naval LeaderPsychology Press, 2004 - 310 pagine 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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Apprenticed to the Queens Navy 18831908 | 1 |
A Symbiotic Relationship 190818 | 6 |
Cowans Protégé 191933 | 19 |
Challenges and Crises 193439 | 39 |
The Mediterranean Fleet June 1939June 1940 | 42 |
Mussolinis War JuneDecember 1940 | 58 |
Triumph into Tragedy JanuaryMay 1941 | 79 |
The Caged Tiger June 1941April 1942 | 106 |
The Invasion of Sicily MayAugust 1943 | 155 |
The Invasion of Italy SeptemberOctober 1943 | 165 |
Becoming First Sea Lord October 1943June 1944 | 173 |
The Pinnacle of a Career June 1944May 1946 | 188 |
Facing the Future January 1945June 1946 | 209 |
The Long Ebb Tide June 1946June 1963 | 219 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 283 |
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