This book offers a penetrating analysis of the Royal Australian Navy in the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading naval historians, it chronicles both naval activities and explores the effects of changing strategic circumstance, technological innovation, and differing national needs and expectations. Reviewing Australia's naval involvement in operations that have ranged from global war through to peacekeeping and natural disaster, the authors explain how the Senior Service developed from a collection of colonial gunboats into a vital element in today's national defence.
- ISBN10 0195555422
- ISBN13 9780195555424
- Publish Date 3 October 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 2017
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English