Research Catalog

Title

World War II at sea : a global history / Craig L. Symonds.

Author

Symonds, Craig L.

Publication

• New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xxii, 770 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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.

Subject

World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-5789

ISBN

• 9780190243678
• 0190243678

LCCN

2017032532

OCLC

993134490

Author

Symonds, Craig L., author.

Title

World War II at sea : a global history / Craig L. Symonds.

Publisher

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5789