The Hunting of Force Z
Author : Hough Richard Staff
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780297645221
Author : Hough Richard Staff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1999-07
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ISBN : 9780297645221
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1970
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ISBN :
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1963
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780304352395
Force Z was the name given to the British battlefleet that sailed to Singapore in the autumn of 1941. Churchill himself described it as the best deterrent and the one key weapon that would prevent the Japanese gaining a foothold in the South Pacific. But behind the impressive name lay a less impressive reality - Force Z consisted of only two ships: the battleship Prince of Wales and the 25-year-old cruiser Repulse. In a time when the days of the battleship as an effective weapon in maritime warfare were numbered, such an action proved to be a terrible mistake. This work traces the history behind this tragic bluff. From the end of World War I to the inevitable sinking of these two ships, it is a comprehensive history of the decline of the battleship in modern warfare, culminating in the battle that proved finally that a navy without air cover could not survive as an effective fighting force.
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : London, Collins 1963.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard Alexander Hough
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1978
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780006350453
Author : Richard Alexander Hough
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1974
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1472846583
A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime weapon In late 1941, war was looming with Japan, and Britain's empire in southeast Asia was at risk. The British government decided to send Force Z, which included the state-of-the-art battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Repulse, to bolster the naval defences of Singapore, and provide a mighty naval deterrent to Japanese aggression. These two powerful ships arrived in Singapore on 2 December - five days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But crucially, they lacked air cover. On 9 December Japanese scout planes detected Force Z's approach in the Gulf of Thailand. Unlike at Pearl Harbor, battleships at sea could manoeuvre, and their anti-aircraft defences were ready. But it did no good. The Japanese dive-bombers and torpedo-bombers were the most advanced in the world, and the battle was one-sided. Strategically, the loss of Force Z was a colossal disaster for the British, and one that effectively marked the end of its empire in the East. But even more importantly, the sinking marked the last time that battleships were considered to be the masters of the ocean. From that day on, air power rather than big guns would be the deciding factor in naval warfare.
Author : Steve Cole
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101591064
It's the end of the world as we know it . . . The stakes are higher than ever for Adam Adler, and he will be put to the test in a way he never imagined. Taken by a flying reptile with wings as big as a bus to the farthest reaches of Siberia, Adam once again finds himself at the center of a plot to take down the evil organization Geneflow, who plan to create an apocalypse, ending life on earth as we know it, in order to create a world of hyper-evolved beings. Adam will have to join forces with a deadly pterosaur named Keera, and with the help of his old friend Zed, they'll need to risk everything to stop Geneflow once and for all and restore order to the world. This companion to Z.Rex and Z.Raptor once again brings dinosaurs colliding with modern society in an action-packed thriller perfect for fans of Alex Rider or Jurassic Park.
Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Penguin Uk
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141391199
On Wednesday 10 December 1941, the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse.