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The sea and the Second World War : maritime aspects of a global conflict / edited by Marcus Faulkner and Alessio Patalano.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New perspectives on the Second World War.
- Kentucky scholarship online.
- New perspectives on the Second World War
- Kentucky scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
- Submarines (Ships)--History--20th century.
- Submarines (Ships).
- Navies--History--20th century.
- Navies.
- World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious operations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : Andarta Books, an imprint of the University Press of Kentucky, 2020.
- Summary:
- From the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 through to the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, the sea shaped the course and conduct of the war. Although individual campaigns, innovations, and personalities have received ample attention over the decades, the role of the sea as a whole has increasingly been marginalized in the wartime historiography. As the war grew in complexity and covered an increasingly larger geographical area, the organization of the maritime effort and the impact it had on the formulation of national strategy also evolved. This volume seeks to illustrate the impact the sea had on the Second World War by highlighting selected topics previously neglected in the scholarship. In doing so, it provides new insights into political, strategic, administrative, and operational aspects of the maritime dimension of the war.
- Contents:
- Buying Time: British Submarine Capability in the Far East, 1919-1940 / James Goldrick
- Naval Strategies in Collision: Britain, the USA, and Japan at the Beginning of the Pacific War / Evan Mawdsley
- The Perils of Technological Transformation: A Case Study of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor / Alan D. Zimm
- The Dominions and British Maritime Power in the Second World War / Iain E. Johnston-White
- Schnellboote, Strategy, and the Defense of Festung Europa, 1943-1944 / G. H. Bennett
- The Development of Combined Operations Headquarters and the Admiralty during the Second World War: Personalities and Administration / C. I. Hamilton
- To the Jungle Shore: Australia and Amphibious Warfare in the South West Pacific Area, 1942-1945 / Peter J. Dean
- Naval Gunfire Support at Iwo Jima: The Perils of Doctrinal Myopia / Donald K. Mitchener
- Naval Power, Mao Zedong, and the War in China, 1926-1949 / Francis Grice
- The Army-Navy Contest for Control of Land-Based Antisubmarine Aviation and the Military Unification Debate, 1942-1948 / George H. Monahan.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2020).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781949668056
- 1949668053
- 9781949668063
- 1949668061
- OCLC:
- 1122780016
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