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This book is a sweeping history of the war at sea by one of the world’s preeminent naval historians. It shows how the Allies used their growing naval superiority to win the war despite their relative deficiencies at the beginning of the conflict.
BOOK REVIEWS. WHEN ELEPHANTS DANCE. World War II at Sea: A Global History, by Craig L Symonds New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2018 792 pages $34 95 . War II—first in and around Europe, then across the Atlantic, before spread-ing to Russia and the Indo-Pacific region—assists in this regard After Pearl Harbor it becomes more difficult, and ...
- Chris Parry, Craig L. Symonds
- 2018
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Aug 25, 2022 · Yale University Press/May 2022. Reviewed by Colin Robertson. August 25, 2022. Historian Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II is the story of how the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan prepared from the mid-1930s and then fought in ...
Jan 2, 2019 · The Kriegsmarine and Compound War at Sea in WWII. By Matthew Connors. The campaign against Nazi Germany is often characterized as a land battle, but Hitler also lost the war by losing the sea. The former army corporal never truly grasped the importance of sea power and did not appropriately invest in Germany’s navy.
World War II at Sea is divided into five consecutive parts. The first covers ‘The European War’ from September 1939 to 1941, before the second moves on to the expansion of the war into a global conflict following the German attack on Russia and the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor (‘The War Widens’).
Article. Supplying Victory: The History of Merchant Marine in World War II. The US Merchant Marine provided crucial, yet often overlooked, logistical support for the Allied war effort. February 7, 2022. Top Image: US Merchant Marine recruitment poster, 1944, courtesy of the National Archives.
Jan 31, 2022 · As can be gleaned from its bibliography, World War II at Sea is an operational history, in which commanders and warships dominate the dramatis personae and battles drive the plot. The lone exception is the prologue that opens the book, which introduces the reader to the main powers and ship types that would contest command of the sea through ...
