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Title:
World War II at sea : a global history / Craig L. Symonds.
Author:
Symonds, Craig L., author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]

©2018
Call Number:
D770 .S87 2018
Abstract:
"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.
ISBN:
9780190243678
Physical Description:
xxii, 770 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Unterseebooten -- Panzerschiffen -- Norway -- France falls -- The Regia Marina -- The war on trade, I -- The Bismarck -- The rising sun -- A two-ocean navy -- Operation AI: The attack on Pearl Harbor -- Rampage -- The war on trade, II -- Stemming the tide -- Two beleaguered islands -- A two-ocean war -- The tipping point -- The war on trade, III -- Airplanes and convoys -- Husky -- Twilight of two navies -- Breaking the shield -- Large slow target -- D-Day -- Seeking the decisive battle -- Leyte Gulf -- The noose tightens -- Denouement -- Epilogue: Tokyo Bay, 1945.
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