World War II at sea : a global history /

World War II at sea : a global history /

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Author / Creator:Symonds, Craig L., author.
Imprint:New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:xxii, 770 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
Military operations, Naval.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11592596
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ISBN:9780190243678
0190243678
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-741) and index.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Charts and Graphs
  • Author's Note
  • Prologue: London, 1930
  • Part I. The European War
  • 1. Unterseebooten
  • 2. Panzerschiffen
  • 3. Norway
  • 4. France Falls
  • 5. The Regia Marina
  • 6. The War on Trade, I
  • 7. The Bismarck
  • Part II. The War Widens
  • 8. The Rising Sun
  • 9. A Two-Ocean Navy
  • 10. Operation AI: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • 11. Rampage
  • 12. The War on Trade, II
  • Part III. Watershed
  • 13. Stemming the Tide
  • 14. Two Beleaguered Islands
  • 15. A Two-Ocean War
  • 16. The Tipping Point
  • 17. The War on Trade, III
  • Part IV. Allied Counterattack
  • 18. Airplanes and Convoys
  • 19. Husky
  • 20. Twilight of Two Navies
  • 21. Breaking the Shield
  • 22. Large Slow Target
  • Part V. Reckoning
  • 23. D-Day
  • 24. Seeking the Decisive Battle
  • 25. Leyte Gulf
  • 26. The Noose Tightens
  • 27. Denouement
  • Epilogue: Tokyo Bay, 1945
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations used in Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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