The postwar fleet /
Volume 1 begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian economy, but also to adjust to the appearance of nuc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York :
Published by Boydell & Brewer for the Navy Records Society,
[2024].
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| Series: | Publications of the Navy Records Society ;
v. 171. |
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| Summary: | Volume 1 begins in January 1944, the point at which serious thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian economy, but also to adjust to the appearance of nuclear weapons and the incipient Cold War with the Soviet Union. Repeated financial crises upset plans almost as soon as they were made. The volume concludes with the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, which upset many previous planning assumptions and initiated a short-lived rearmament program. Subsequent volumes will continue the story through the 1950s and beyond. Volume 2 begins in June 1950 and the outbreak of the Korean War, an event which upset many previous planning assumptions and initiated a short-lived rearmament program. It concludes with the publication of the 1957 Defencs White Paper, named after its principal author, the Minister of Defense, Duncan Sandys. Subsequent volumes will continue the narrative until the end of the Cold War in 1990. |
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| Physical Description: | volumes ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781739296414 1739296419 9781916931213 1916931219 |