| Entry Text: | CHATFIELD, A. E. M. The Navy and Defence: The Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield. 2 vols., illus., index. London: Heinemann, 1942–47.
Chatfield was First Sea Lord from 1933 to 1938. He was then fairly swiftly called in to the Cabinet as Co-ordinator of Defence, which post he held until retirement in 1940. The latter part of volume 2, entitled "It Might Happen Again," describes this period. |
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