In All Respects Ready: Australia's Navy in World War One presents the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the Australian Navy's involvement in World War I yet published. When the newly built Australian fleet sailed into Sydney for the first time in October 1913, it was portrayed as a sign of peace that came from being prepared for war. Within a year that war had broken out and the Royal Australian Navy, fully trained and ready, was the most professional and effective force Australia had to offer the British ...
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In All Respects Ready: Australia's Navy in World War One presents the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the Australian Navy's involvement in World War I yet published. When the newly built Australian fleet sailed into Sydney for the first time in October 1913, it was portrayed as a sign of peace that came from being prepared for war. Within a year that war had broken out and the Royal Australian Navy, fully trained and ready, was the most professional and effective force Australia had to offer the British Empire. Throughout the next four years of conflict Australian ships and sailors would operate across the seas and oceans of the world, establishing a tradition of intrepid courage and dogged endurance while forging their own unique naval and national identity.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Small 4to. xiv, 469pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, num bw & few col ills, maps. Black cloth in jacket. Bookplate of retired RAN Commander on front free endpaper, otherwise near new. The RAN from the first South Pacific operations in 1914, through descriptions of battles on, under and over the sea, to the final spectacle of the German fleet's surrender in November, 1918.
