| Attack on Taranto Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lowry, Thomas P. (Author), Wellham, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811726614 ISBN-13: 9780811726610 Publisher: Stackpole Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - Naval |
| Dewey: 940.54 |
| Series: Stackpole Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.02" W x 9.05" (0.59 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an inspirational precedent for the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor 13 months later. Taranto demonstrated that battleships in a shallow, heavily defended harbor could be sunk by a handful of torpedo-bombers. That lesson Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, learned well-while the American military virtually ignored it. "By this single stroke the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean was decisively altered." -Winston S. Churchill |