| Entry Text: | WILLMOTT, H. P. Grave of a Dozen Schemes: British Naval Planning and the War against Japan 1943-1945. xviii, 316p., bibliog., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife; Annapolis: NIP, 1996. ISBN: 1853107778.
Originally his thesis, this is now a book which clearly delineates the confusions and differences of view which governed the UK's attempt to develop a strategy for the war against Japan. Britain found it difficult to choose between an Indian Ocean amphibious strategy and a Pacific-based fleet strategy - and arguably could afford neither. |
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