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It began with Pearl Harbor. Three days later, the new British battleship Prince of Wales and the veteran battlecruiser Repulse were sunk by Japanese naval aircraft with humiliating ease and at negligible cost to themselves. British naval dominance of the Far East was broken at a stroke. The Japanese fleet rolled inexorably on, to destroy an ill-assorted fleet of British, Australian, Dutch and American cruisers and destroyers of uncertain vintage. There was no defence against the ravages of the world's third largest navy as disaster followed disaster. This is a vivid and accurate account of a period that changed the face of warfare at sea and heralded the collapse of European colonial power in the Far East.
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David A. Thomas served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, and later made a career for himself as a naval historian. He is the author of, among many other books, Crete 1941, and in a different vein, Edwin's Letters, about the death of his younger brother in Bomber Command.
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BATTLE OF THE JAVA SEA
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André Deutsch. London. ., 1968
ISBN 10: 0233960724
ISBN 13: 9780233960722
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