This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theatres of combat; the battles for the Atlantic, the war in the Mediterranean and the contest in the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a vital contest, which if lost would have irreversibly altered the balance of the military forces on land. The sea lanes were the logistical arteries of British and subsequent Allied armies fighting on the three continents of Africa, Asia and Europe. The Second World War was ultimately won by land forces but it could always have been lost at sea.
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This unique series studies every major war in history looking at all the aspects of war, from how it felt to be a soldier to the lasting impact of the conflict on the world around it.
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Dr Alastair Finlan teaches in the History Department at the American University in Cairo. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategic Studies and International Affairs, Britannia Royal Naval College, of which he is still an Associate Senior Lecturer. He has also lectured at the Universities of Keele and Plymouth. Mark J Grove teaches naval and international history in the Department of Strategic Studies and International Affairs, Britannia Royal Naval College, and lectures part time in the Department of Politics, University of Plymouth. He has a particular interest in amphibious warfare. Philip D Grove joined the Department of Strategic Studies and International Affairs, Britannia Royal Naval College in 1993 following the completion of two degrees from Aberystwyth in the area of Strategic Studies. He is presently Senior Lecturer in the department and working on a series of articles and a MPhil thesis concerning naval aviation in the twentieth century.
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The Second World War was the most violent, all-encompassing conflict in human history, yet as wars go, it started slowly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Navy, Indian Ocean, Second World War, United States, First World War, Soviet Union, Graf Spee, Eastern Fleet, Royal Oak, Coastal Command, Red Sea, Scapa Flow, Wolf Pack, Rear Admiral, Adolf Hitler, Great Britain, North Sea, Winston Churchill, Admiral Raeder, Admiral Somerville, British Empire, Operation Torch, Red Army, River Plate, Topham Picturepoint New!
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The Second World War was the most violent, all-encompassing conflict in human history, yet as wars go, it started slowly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Navy, Indian Ocean, Second World War, United States, First World War, Soviet Union, Graf Spee, Eastern Fleet, Royal Oak, Coastal Command, Red Sea, Scapa Flow, Wolf Pack, Rear Admiral, Adolf Hitler, Great Britain, North Sea, Winston Churchill, Admiral Raeder, Admiral Somerville, British Empire, Operation Torch, Red Army, River Plate, Topham Picturepoint New!
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- Pearl Harbor! (World War II 50th Anniversary Series) by Wallace B. Black on page 80, and page 82
- The Eastern Front (Campaigns of World War II) by Duncan Anderson in Back Matter
- The Vietnam War (Twentieth-Century Wars (Palgrave Paperback)) by David L. Anderson in Back Matter
- The Seven Years' War (Essential Histories) by Daniel Marston in Back Matter
- The Battle of the Atlantic by Bernard Ireland on page 25
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