Przemyslaw Budzbon

The Polish Navy 1918-45

From the Polish-Soviet War to World War II
Illustrator: Wright, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years.

Produktdetails

• New Vanguard
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 186mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9781472847003
• ISBN-10: 1472847008
• Artikelnr.: 62307280

Autorenporträt

Przemyslaw Budzbon is a naval architect who worked on warship construction for the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. He has written widely on the history of the Polish and Soviet navies of WW2 for Warship Quarterly and other European naval magazines. He contributed to Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships series and his book Soviet Navy at War 1941-45 was published in 1989. Since 2019 he has resumed his writing for Warship and has recently published two books on Polish shipyards from the post-1990 era.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Poland regains independence, 1918
THE POLISH-BOLSHEVIK WAR
1919 campaign
1920 campaign
POLISH NAVY DEVELOPMENT 1921-39
The navy from World War I remnants, 1921
The first naval programme, 1925
Between the Soviet Union and Germany
THE POLISH NAVY IN WORLD WAR II
The German-Soviet assault
Revival: the Polish naval detachment 1939
The year of dashed hopes, 1940
The Battle of the Atlantic 1940-44
The Arctic convoys
The North Atlantic
The Mediterranean 1941-44
Invasion of the continent 1944
CONCLUSION
FURTHER READING
INDEX