{"product_id":"9780811766784","title":"Attack on Taranto","description":"On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an inspirational precedent for the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor 13 months later. Taranto demonstrated that battleships in a shallow, heavily defended harbor could be sunk by a handful of torpedo-bombers. That lesson Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, learned well-while the American military virtually ignored it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By this single stroke the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean was decisively altered.” –Winston S. Churchill","brand":"Stackpole Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110324584688,"sku":"9780811766784","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811766784_p0.jpg?v=1769909111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811766784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}