World War II at sea
Subtitle: a global history
By: Craig L. Symonds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9780190243678
Subjects: Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.
Table of contents: title: The European war.; title: Unterseebooten --; title: Panzerschiffen --; title: Norway --; title: France falls --; title: The Regia Marina --; title: The war on trade, I --; title: The Bismarck -- -- The war widens.; title: The rising sun --; title: A two-ocean navy --; title: Operation AI: The attack on Pearl Harbor --; title: Rampage --; title: The war on trade, II -- -- Watershed.; title: Stemming the tide --; title: Two beleaguered islands --; title: A two-ocean war --; title: The tipping point --; title: The war on trade, III -- -- Allied counterattack.; title: Airplanes and convoys --; title: Husky --; title: Twilight of two navies --; title: Breaking the shield --; title: Large slow target -- -- Reckoning.; title: D-Day --; title: Seeking the decisive battle --; title: Leyte Gulf --; title: The noose tightens --; title: Denouement --; title: Epilogue: Tokyo Bay, 1945.