{"product_id":"world-war-ii-at-sea-a-global-history-hardcover","title":"World War II at Sea: A Global History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig L. Symonds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eLincoln and His Admirals\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Lincoln Prize), \u003cem\u003eThe Battle of Midway\u003c\/em\u003e (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and \u003cem\u003eOperation Neptune\u003c\/em\u003e, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. \u003cem\u003eWorld War II at Sea\u003c\/em\u003e represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. \u003cem\u003eWorld War II at Sea \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the \"miracle\" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's \u003cem\u003eRegia Marina\u003c\/em\u003e-at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world-and the dominance of the \u003cem\u003eKidö Butai\u003c\/em\u003e and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders-FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed \"Navy men,\" Karl Dönitz, François\u003cbr\u003eDarlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown and how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig L. Symonds\u003c\/strong\u003e is Ernest J. King Distinguished Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College and also Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy where he taught for thirty years and served as Department Chair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 792\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 9.2 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978810622253,"sku":"9780190243678","price":40.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/c3V4UklLUkNNKzBaeVZTdmw3ejg0dz09.webp?v=1775810433","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/world-war-ii-at-sea-a-global-history-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}