World War II at sea : a global history

Summary:

"Craig L. Symonds' World War II at Sea offers a definitive naval history of the Second World War presenting the chronology of the naval war, from The London Conference of 1930 to the surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945, on a global scale for the first time."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780190243678
ISBN: 0190243678
Physical Description: xxii, 770 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The European war. Unterseebooten -- Panzerschiffen -- Norway -- France falls -- The Regia Marina -- The war on trade, I -- The Bismarck -- The war widens. The rising sun -- A two-ocean navy -- Operation AI: The attack on Pearl Harbor -- Rampage -- The war on trade, II -- Watershed. Stemming the tide -- Two beleaguered islands -- A two-ocean war -- The tipping point -- The war on trade, III -- Allied counterattack. Airplanes and convoys -- Husky -- Twilight of two navies -- Breaking the shield -- Large slow target -- Reckoning. D-Day -- Seeking the decisive battle -- Leyte Gulf -- The noose tightens -- Denouement -- Epilogue: Tokyo Bay, 1945.