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A Ceaseless Watch is an absorbing read and a worthy addition to scholarly works on Australian strategic history. It sits well with historical analytical works on the Pacific War. --Australian Naval Institute Angus Britts' ground-breaking investigation of Japanese, British, American and Australian naval planning in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 sheds new light on the Allies' difficulties in responding to the threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and how Australia shifted its reliance on the Royal Navy to a new relationship with the United States. --Dr. John Connor, senior lecturer in History, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra

Angus Britts' ground-breaking investigation of Japanese, British, American and Australian naval planning in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 sheds new light on the Allies' difficulties in responding to the threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and how Australia shifted its reliance on the Royal Navy to a new relationship with the United States. -Dr. John Connor, senior lecturer in History, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra

Angus Britts' ground-breaking investigation of Japanese, British, American and Australian naval planning in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 sheds new light on the Allies' difficulties in responding to the threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and how Australia shifted its reliance on the Royal Navy to a new relationship with the United States. --Dr. John Connor, senior lecturer in History, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra

Recommend as a useful and interesting addition for those who study the period and Australia. --The Naval Review 2021 ANI Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize Honorable Mention A Ceaseless Watch is an absorbing read and a worthy addition to scholarly works on Australian strategic history. It sits well with historical analytical works on the Pacific War. --Australian Naval Institute Angus Britts' ground-breaking investigation of Japanese, British, American and Australian naval planning in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 sheds new light on the Allies' difficulties in responding to the threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and how Australia shifted its reliance on the Royal Navy to a new relationship with the United States. --Dr. John Connor, senior lecturer in History, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra

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Angus Britts is an Australian historian who resides in Sydney, New South Wales. He graduated with a postgraduate Research Masters from the University of Sydney and is the author of Neglected Skies: The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922-42. His major area of historical interest is British imperial naval defense and the Singapore strategy.

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