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World War II at sea : a global history / Craig L. Symonds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Symonds, Craig L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Sea control.
- Military operations, Naval.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 770 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190243678
- 0190243678
- OCLC:
- 993134490
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