num_pages: 544
description: In this engaging narrative brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshalls beautiful full-color paintings historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World Warthe allied navies of Britain France and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany Italy and JapanKennedy tells a story of naval battles maritime campaigns convoys amphibious landings and strikes from the sea. From the elimination of the Italian German and Japanese fleets and almost all of the French fleet to the end of the era of the big-gunned surface vessel the advent of the atomic bomb and the rise of an American economic and military power larger than anything the world had ever seen Kennedy shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946.
language: English
title: Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
publisher: Yale University Press