Volume IX – The Royal Australian Navy

Item Height: 200mm

Item Width: 140mm

Author: C.E.w. Bean

Publication Name: The Official History of AU in the War of 1914-18

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Subject: History

Publication Year: 1987

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 800 Pages

Title: Volume IX – The Royal Australian Navy, 1914 – 1918

Author: Jose, A W

Condition: Very Good

Edition: UQ Press Edition

Publication Date: 1993

ISBN: 0702218480

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 649 pages

Comments: Volume IX – The Royal Australian Navy, 1914 – 1918.

Writing in the 1920s, when the future development of the Royal Australian Navy was uncertain, Jose attempted to combat what he perceived as local tendencies either to reduce participation in Imperial Defence or to leave all responsibility for it to Great Britain. His history set out to show that during the war the RAN had justified the policy of those pre-war Australian leaders who had inaugurated it. Whether fighting an action, in routine patrolling, or working ashore, the very young Australian fleet and its men, under Admiralty control, had shown themselves worthy of the traditions and courage of the Royal Navy. Such strategic errors as there may have been in its employment were not of Australian origin. Jose’s main interest was in the events described in the early chapters, covering the work in the Pacific during the second half of 1914.

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