THE KEYES PAPERS: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge vOL tHREE 1939-1945

Langue : anglais

Edité par George Allen and Unwin for Navy Records Society, London, 1981

0049421727 / 9780049421721

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This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and a gilt colophon of the Navy Records Society to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. The start of Volume III, 1939-1945, finds Keyes in a frustrating position. Too young for fleet command in the First World War, he was now too old for command in the Second World War. Keyes s temperament did not allow him to suffer in silence. His criticisms of the Naval Staff, and implicitly of the government reached another climax with his celebrated speech in the debate in the House of Commons in May 1940, which helped to bring down the Chamberlain government. On 17 July 1940 Keyes was appointed Director of Combined Operations, and he set to work to build up an organization. Immediately this organization was at odds with both the Royal Navy and the Army, as they were competing for the same supplies, equipment and manpower. He was treated with considerable suspicion, personally, by the 3 Chiefs of Staff, who knew all to well his close connection to Churchill, and most of his proposals were ruled out by various planning committees. In March 1941 the Commandos carried out a raid on the Lofoten Islands, and for much of the summer Keyes was involved in planning a raid on the Grand Canary Island or the Azores (Operation Pilgrim). This culminated in August in Exercise Leapfrog, designed as the dress rehearsal for the operation. The mistakes committed during this exercise led directly to Keyes dismissal as DCO and was eventually relived of his post by Churchill. For the second time in the war Keyes was out of a job, when he thought he ought to have been running the war. He continued to write to all his naval friends and spoke out against the conduct of the war in Parliament. Despite his criticisms of the direction of the war Churchill offered Keyes a peerage, which he accepted. He died on 26th December 1945. This copy is from the library of Admiral Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB CBE (born 31 August 1934) is a senior Royal Navy officer from 1852 to 1991 who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. This is just one of a large number of volumes from the Navy Records Society that I am selling on this site. Ref III3.…

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THE KEYES PAPERS: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge vOL tHREE 1939-1945
Auteur
Paul G Halpern (Editor)
Éditeur
George Allen and Unwin for Navy Records Society, London
Année de publication
1981
État de l'article
Mint
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Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0049421727
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780049421721
Édition
First Edition
Dimensions
404pp

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