The war for the seas a maritime history of World War II

A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding. Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overru...

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Main Author: Mawdsley, Evan, 1945- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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520 8 |a A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding. Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what had become a "war of continents"? In this definitive account, Evan Mawdsley traces events at sea from the first U-boat operations in 1939 to the surrender of Japan. He argues that the Allied counterattack involved not just decisive sea battles, but a long struggle to control shipping arteries and move armies across the sea. Covering all the major actions in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as those in the narrow seas, this book interweaves for the first time the endeavors of the maritime forces of the British Empire, the United States, Germany, and Japan, as well as those of France, Italy, and Russia. 
505 0 |a Sea power and the European War, September 1939 -- June 1940 -- The British Empire at bay, June 1940 -- April 1942 -- Global war at sea, April-December 1942 -- Victory at sea, January 1943 -- June 1944 -- Commanding the seas, defeating the Axis, June 1944 -- August 1945. 
650 0 |a World War, 1939-1945  |x Naval operations. 
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