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Attack on Taranto (Stackpole Classics) Paperback – September 15, 2017
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“By this single stroke the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean was decisively altered.” –Winston S. Churchill
- Print length174 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherStackpole Books
- Publication dateSeptember 15, 2017
- Dimensions5.94 x 0.47 x 9.06 inches
- ISBN-100811726614
- ISBN-13978-0811726610
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- Publisher : Stackpole Books; First Edition (September 15, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 174 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0811726614
- ISBN-13 : 978-0811726610
- Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.94 x 0.47 x 9.06 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,168,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,998 in Naval Military History
- #20,151 in World War II History (Books)
- #46,033 in Engineering (Books)
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I am a product of northern California -- beaches, high Sierras, high school in the East Bay, plane spotting in World War II, seven years at Stanford. Starting in 1957, I was a physician and psychiatrist -- an always interesting life -- in California and New Mexico, publishing several very dull medical books. Around 1995, with my wife Beverly, we began reading the Civil War records of misbehavior at the National Archives. Just like today's tabloids, only wilder. We found that high school history left out all the interesting stuff.
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Another book with a major section on Taranto is "To War in a Stringbag," a Bantam War Book that covers many actions involving Swordfish airplanes. To me it was a better read.
-the names of two African American pilots who flew biplane fighters for Haile Salasse against Mussolini (now there's college paper topic for you).
-that Adm. Yamamoto was once banned from casinos in Monaco because he won too much.
-that a German named Schwartzkoff (sp?) stole the plans of the first practical torpedo from a British engineer in the 19th century.
The story itself is short and economically written, but the book is beefed up with divergent historical lines of inquiry, from the overall strategic position of the British Mediteranean
fleet to the British use of of American Martin B-20's, a plane type apparently unknown to other WW-II history writers.
Although the narrative goes a little far afield once or twice, and makes some brisk statements begging for better source notes, it is an overall good read, about the right length, and should be in every 20th century naval historian's collection.
Authors Lowry and Wellham spend considerable time explaining both the planning and the execution of the mission, including its multi-faceted deception plan. As the authors repeatedly remark, the British fliers courageously made the attack at night in obsolete open-cockpit biplanes into the teeth of a heavily defended target. In fact, the Swordfish biplanes, nicknamed "stringbags", would provide good service at sea throughout the war.
Lowry and Wellham emphasize the parallels to the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including the intense Japanese interest in Italian and German after-action reports and an inspection of the base at Taranto. Their further speculation on Pearl Harbor is perhaps less well-founded. "The Attack on Taranto" is well-recommended to student of naval aviation, as a solid account of a lesser-known but important event in the development of carrier aviation.