| Entry Text: | SIMPSON, Michael. A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth-century Naval Leader. 310p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cass, 2004. ISBN: 0714651974.
Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conferences with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and the US Chiefs of Staff, deliberating the global strategy for Allied victory. He also led a very active public life for almost 20 years after his retirement in 1946. |
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