Название: With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'er The Dark Blue SeaАвтор: B B Schofield, Victoria Schofield
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF, epub
Страниц: 332
Размер: 17,29 Мб
Язык: английский
The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves. Safe anchorages spanned the globe and faster, better armored ships with revolutionary weaponry were coming into service. After serving as a midshipman in The Great War, Schofield qualified as a navigator and interpreter in French and Italian. At the outbreak of The Second World War he was Naval Attaché in The Hague and Brussels before becoming Director of Trade Division (Convoys) during the critical years 1941-1943. While commanding the battleship King George V he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in August 1945.