Bibliograph

World War II at sea, a global history, Craig L. Symonds

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World War II at sea, a global history, Craig L. Symonds

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-741) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

World War II at sea

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

993134490

Responsibility statement

Craig L. Symonds

Sub title

a global history

Summary

Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against one [another]. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on the Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the 'miracle' evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway's fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina--at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world--and the dominance of the Kidō Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in north Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders--FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men", Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest king, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose lives were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled

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