World War II at Sea
A Global History
Oxford University Press · Print & ebook · April 11, 2018
Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest naval historians.
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- Who it’s for
- A broad, steady-handed look at WWII at sea, built for context rather than cannon fire.
- Genres
- Naval History, World War II History, WWII Pacific Theater
- Published
- Oxford University Press, April 11, 2018
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Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest naval historians. World War II at Sea is his crowning achievement, a narrative of the entire war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas between 1939 and 1945.
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Here are the major engagements and their interconnections: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the scuttling of the French Navy; the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords and Mussolini's Regia Marina; the rise of the Kidö Butai and Pearl Harbor; the landings in North Africa and New Guinea, then on Normandy and Iwo Jima. Symonds offers indelible portraits of the great naval leaders - FDR and Churchill (self-proclaimed "Navy men"), Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Louis Mountbatten, and William Halsey - while acknowledging the countless seamen and officers of all nationalities whose lives were lost during the greatest naval conflicts ever fought. World War II at Sea is history on a truly epic scale.
At Sea
A broad, steady-handed look at WWII at sea, built for context rather than cannon fire.
Come here for
- global sweep of naval war
- clear historical orientation
Expect
- measured explanation
- reference-friendly clarity
Where it sits
| Naval History | 94% |
|---|---|
| WWII Pacific Theater | 62% |
| World War II History | 60% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Military History
- Authors
- Craig L. Symonds
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- April 11, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Military History