A team of naval historians have pooled their expertise for this definitive single-volume reference on how the major navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the[...]

The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet remarkably little has been written about the subject. Th is fresh study of the Mediterranean's naval war analyzes the actions and performan[...]

The strategic importance of the Mediterranean was at the centre of Naval and wider military thinking on the part of both Allied and Axis powers throughout the Second World War. It witnessed a huge variety of actions and operations, which included carrier strikes, convoy attacks, coastal actions, amp[...]