The Naval History of the Second World War: A Maritime Saga as Big as the Seas

The complete history of the Second World War from a maritime perspective, by one of the best American experts: a saga as big as the seas. From the German-British naval treaty in 1935 to the signing of the Japanese Act of Surrender on the USS Missouri in September 1945, including the Battle of the Atlantic where German U-boats made their mark for themselves, the Mediterranean Sea ship, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, the amphibious operations “Torch” and “Overlord” or even the battle of Leyte Gulf and the amphibious assault on the island of Iwo Jima, Craig L.
Symonds provides an unparalleled summary of the conflict without omitting the examination of the technological developments – related to airplanes, torpedoes, code breaking, radar and ultimately atomic energy – which came true. With several unpublished sources, it also allows the historical actors to express themselves, to tell the Second World War at sea as contemporaries experienced it: one gigantic and complex story in which there are national leaders, strategists, fleet commanders and ship captains, mechanics, turret operators, aircraft pilots, merchant navy sailors and US Marines, and human dramas of planetary proportions that have had a lasting, disproportionate impact on the history of the world world
In the future classic. “The Naval History of the Second World War is a valuable history, collected in one book, but with an interesting scope, not one episode will be forgotten. by offering us an interesting story and a story full of interest This book is a delight! do not exclude the study of technological advances.” – Gazette desarmes “A very beautiful piece of work on an unfamiliar side of the war.
” – History and Heritage