Victory Without Peace

The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924

William N Still, Jr author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Naval Institute Press

Published:30th Nov '18

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Victory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and NearEastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants in theVersailles peace negotiations, the Navy was charged with executing the navalterms of the Armistice as well as preserving stability and peace. U.S. warshipswere deploying into the Near East, Baltic, Adriatic, and Northern Europe, whilesimultaneously withdrawing its demobilized forces from European waters. Thissignifies the first time the U.S. Navy contributed to peacetime efforts, setting aprecedent continues today.

Conversely, Congressional appropriations handicapped this deployment bydemobilization, general naval policy and postwar personnel, and operatingfunds reductions. Though reluctant to allocate postwar assets into seeminglyunimportant European and Near Eastern waters, the Navy was pressured by theState Department and the American Relief Administration’s leader, HerbertHoover, to deploy necessary forces. Most of these were withdrawn by 1924 andthe European Station assumed the traditional policy of showing the flag.

"William N. Still Jr.'s stellar work Victory without Peace is one of the few books written on the role of the U.S. Navy in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. It is also one of the most in-depth texts on the topic. Victory without Peace is thoroughly researched and uses government documents and letters, as well as newspaper and magazine accounts of the time to make its case. The book is highly recommended for anyone interested in post-World War I and interwar period history, peacekeeping, and the projection of naval power in support of national objectives."  Marine Corps History

ISBN: 9781682470145

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 988g

392 pages