Аннотация издательства

The official history of Australia’s involvement in the Second World War represents one of the longest and largest historical endeavours that Australia has ever seen. The enterprise began in January 1943 with the appointment of Gavin Long as General Editor. The 22 volumes, written by 14 authors, were published by the Memorial over a 25-year period between 1952 and 1977.

This volume tells briefly the story of the Royal Australian Navy and of Australian naval policy between the wars, and then records the part played by the ships and men of that Navy on every ocean and particularly in the eastern Mediterranean and Indian and Pacific Oceans from 1939 until the end of the first quarter of 1942. When the volume ends most of the surviving ships are on the Australia Station again and the Japanese fleets dominate half the Pacific Ocean and the seas to the north of Australia.

The historian describes not only the actions of the Australian ships but the problems and policies of the British fleets of which they often formed a part, and discusses the strategical and administrative questions encountered by the senior leaders in Australia. A second volume will tell the story of the Australian Navy in the last three years and a half of the war.

Использование

Без параметров:

• {{Книга:Hermon Gill:RAN (1939-1942)}}
• Hermon Gill. Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. — 1. — Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957. — Vol. 1. — 686 p. — (Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 2 – Navy).

С параметром номер страницы:

• {{Книга:Hermon Gill:RAN (1939-1942)|97}}
• Hermon Gill. Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. — Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957. — Vol. 1. — P. 97.

Второй параметр используется для применения ссылки на книгу в примечаниях — отключается викификация:

• {{Книга:Hermon Gill:RAN (1939-1942)|160—161|1}}
• Hermon Gill. Royal Australian Navy, 1939–1942. — 1957. — P. 160—161.