Admirals

A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham

Michael A. Simpson 2004

Author : Michael A. Simpson

Publisher : Psychology Press

Release : 2004

ISBN-13 : 9780714651972

Page : 356 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 972 voters

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conferences with Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.

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