NAVAL BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

'The first satisfactory survey of the naval side of the war', was how the eminent historian Professor Arthur Marder described Geoffrey Bennett's Naval Battles of the First World War. This book, as the Foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke makes plain, is in the same tradition and of the same high quality.

Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle of the River Plate, the struggle for Narvik, the hunt for the Bismarck, the convoys' battles with the U-boat, the destruction of the Italian Fleet at Taranto and Matapan, the sinking of the Scharnhorst are all vividly described and authoritatively analyzed.