ISBN: PB: 9780300276787
ISBN: HB: 9780300219173
June 2024
644 pp.
25,4x17,8 cm
83 colour illus.
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18.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Victory at Sea
Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II.
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall's beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War – the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan – Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea. From the elimination of the Italian, German, and Japanese fleets and almost all of the French fleet, to the end of the era of the big-gunned surface vessel, the advent of the atomic bomb, and the rise of an American economic and military power larger than anything the world had ever seen, Kennedy shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946.
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall's beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War – the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan – Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea. From the elimination of the Italian, German, and Japanese fleets and almost all of the French fleet, to the end of the era of the big-gunned surface vessel, the advent of the atomic bomb, and the rise of an American economic and military power larger than anything the world had ever seen, Kennedy shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946.
About the author
Paul Kennedy is J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He is the author of "Grand Strategies in War and Peace", "From War to Peace", and "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War".
Ian Marshall was a fellow and past president of the American Society of Marine Arts.
Ian Marshall was a fellow and past president of the American Society of Marine Arts.