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World War II at Sea
- A Global History
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- Written by: Ian W. Toll
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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Fascinating account of war in the Pacific
- By Lee G on 2020-08-01
Written by: Ian W. Toll
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Shattered Sword
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- Written by: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
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Excellent book
- By Eric Reynard on 2023-02-02
Written by: Jonathan Parshall, and others
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The Rising Sun
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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very well done
- By Frank on 2022-06-10
Written by: John Toland
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The Battle of the Atlantic
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- Written by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Battle of the Atlantic, written and read by Jonathan Dimbleby. The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would have consumed Britain, and the Allied armies would have been prevented from joining in the invasion of Europe.
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Good book, good read, bad editing
- By Eric Lacasse on 2022-08-16
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Barbarossa
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Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and was cataclysmic for Germany with millions of men killed, wounded or registered as missing in action. It was this colossal mistake—rather than any action in Western Europe—that lost Hitler the Second World War.
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Barbarossa
- By Mark Cahill on 2022-11-26
Written by: Jonathan Dimbleby
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The Second World War
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- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
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Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of World War II. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, The Second World War. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on World War II.
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Spectacular Book
- By silvercity on 2019-02-09
Written by: Antony Beevor
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- Written by: Ian W. Toll
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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Fascinating account of war in the Pacific
- By Lee G on 2020-08-01
Written by: Ian W. Toll
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Shattered Sword
- The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- Written by: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
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Excellent book
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The Rising Sun
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- Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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very well done
- By Frank on 2022-06-10
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The Battle of the Atlantic
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- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Good book, good read, bad editing
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Barbarossa
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Barbarossa
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The Second World War
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Spectacular Book
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The Korean War
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On 25 June, 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam.
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Great story, narration meh
- By The A Man on 2020-01-26
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The Battle of Britain
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'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. The Battle of Britain was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War. Had Britain's defences collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able to turn his full attention east to the Soviet Union. The German invasion of France and the Low Countries in May 1940 was unlike any the world had ever seen. It hit with a force and aggression that no-one could counter and in just a few short weeks, all in their way crumbled.
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A great reading by Al Murray!
- By Stefano on 2021-05-23
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.
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Dumb luck or a chance of redemption?
- By Anonymous User on 2021-12-20
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The Story of World War II
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Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.
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Shamefully misleading title
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Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The founders, particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once.
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One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and became the first British troops to cross into Germany. Their courage, skill, and tenacity contributed mightily to the surrender of Germany in 1945.
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More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war.
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STUNNING
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
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Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction.
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Historical Treasure
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Normandy '44
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Excellent
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The Battle of Arnhem
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On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch.
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Detailed and gripping
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Fighting the Great War at Sea
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This radical new book concentrates on the way in which each side tried to use or deny the sea to the other, and in so doing describes rapid wartime changes not only in ship and weapons technology but also in the way naval warfare was envisaged and fought. Melding strategic, technical, and tactical aspects, Friedman approaches World War I from a fresh perspective and demonstrates how its perceived lessons dominated the way navies prepared for World War II.
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A History of Sea Power during the Great War that is well worth the read
- By William on 2022-09-02
Written by: Norman Friedman
Publisher's Summary
Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina - at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world - and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders - FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men," Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history.
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- Max Boyd
- 2021-02-25
A Must for Military History Geeks
Found this book thanks to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He sited it as a source, and I was overjoyed to find it in audio book format. The detail recorded is incredibly interesting, and the flow of events through the book as well as the authors choice of focus on different theaters and diplomatic relations makes for an engaging but logical explanation. The narrator's tone and reading style may seem monotonous to some, but I found them very fitting to a history book and respectful to the events recorded.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-09
excellent review of WW2 Naval History
well written well performed. easy to to follow even in the chaos that was WW2 naval history
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- John Robson
- 2022-04-16
Falls strangely flat
An amazing story and we'll worth knowing but a remarkably dull telling of it. Still good to hear but should be better.
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- Dave
- 2021-04-17
Amazing detailed account from all sides
This was a great book for anyone that loves WWII navy history. It gives all sides of the story and why each side did what they did. The book wrapped up nicely as well with an account of what happened to some of the main players in the after the war.
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- Lucas Reinhardt
- 2021-01-26
Great balance of story telling and historical fact
An incredibly detailed account of naval warfare during World War II with great narration. I especially enjoyed the coverage of the Italian and German surface navies as that is one area that I have not been exposed to as much compared to say German submarine warfare. The insights into the leading Admirals and captains, expressed via primary sources (where possible) were also very well done. For such an expansive timeline and subject, the author does a good job organizing the chapters so that events across all theatres follow a close chronological order without much jumping around. Would certainly recommend to those interested in learning more about naval warfare, or even those looking to expand their knowledge by looking at a more holistic picture of the war across all combatants.
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- Patrick
- 2019-02-14
Outstanding
I have read dozens of books about WW-II, and many, many about the war at sea during that conflict. This was one of the very BEST. I learned several vignettes an other facts that recent schlorship has brought to light. I highly recommend this book.
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- Nashville Cat
- 2018-12-31
The Ocean War: 30,000 feet to 600 feet below
My highly decorated father-in-law fought in WWII in France and Germany. He would never have arrived except for other men -such as my father- who helped design the ships in the Brooklyn Navy yard that carried our armed forces to Europe and the Pacific. Men and woman like them saved the world. As Wellington said, : this was"a near run thing" ; victory was not inevitable. This book will convince you victory was hard won at all levels. But you get a better appreciation by examining the war at sea. It really is wonderful given the premise that --like a sausage circus balloon -- you squeeze at one end and it expands at another. Ships needed for the invasion in Europe had to compete with carrier losses in the Pacific. This book examines the global sea war chronologically --hitting the major battles and political infighting but also telling us stories about single ship actions complete with the names of the captains. And it is not just about the war. It is the war against commerce and the war to build more ships faster than the enemy can sink them. Great bravery and damn good luck in some cases saved the day. It is a wonderful, gripping story, well told.and very interesting.The print version has maps and photographs. This audio version is seriously marred by the lack the .pdf s that accompany other military-related audio-books. That said you can find most of the maps on line in Wikipedia. Get the book.-- you will not be disappointed.
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- Chris H
- 2020-01-29
Bad narration. Poor detail.
First the reason for returning it; the narration is distracting. I spent most of the time second guessing the pronunciation. That cost me more time checking. But then he got Montevideo and instead said Monty-vay-deeoh. At that point I just decided to ignore the errors, but that just made then more distracting. Basically he mispronounces any name that isn't common in America.
Then the detail, or rather the total lack. To get the whole of WWII at sea into one book he can basically just touch on each battle. This book is the same length as Shattered Sword, which only deals with Midway.
Then the accuracy. I just finished a book about the U boat war. Part of that was the attack on Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, which he also can't pronounce correctly. This description did not match what I have read in other detailed accounts.
So I'm returning it. I don't need a shallow, inaccurate, badly pronounced overview of the way at sea.
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- Eric Walden
- 2019-01-18
Battle Logistics writ large
The scale of the Naval engagements in both theaters and the sacrifices made by all combatants are staggering when absorbed in one session like this.
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- Chris Buczinsky
- 2019-06-16
A Great Bird’s Eye View of WWII
I have read lots of books about particular WWII battles and soldiers; this one gave me my first bird’s eye view of the war as a whole, using the operations at sea as a prism. I appreciated Symonds’ ability to pepper the big narrative with both incisive character sketches of important players and engaging smaller tales of particular battles—all while explaining clearly the technical, strategic, or logistical issues needed to comprehend what was at stake in any given operation. Eric Martin’s narration at first struck me as a bit stilted, but I soon came to appreciate the care and clarity he brought to more difficult passages that require a listener’s complete attention. I liked it so much I’m going to take it from the top and listen to the whole thing again.
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- J.Brock
- 2019-04-02
Most Comprehensive history...pay close attention
Craig Symonds is a master of naval history. This is a comprehensive masterpiece of naval warfare during World War II. It’s very thorough so if one isn’t paying attention, much detail will be missed. I had to rewind a lot. But no detail is left uncovered. Eric Martin’s narration strikes the perfect tone. This will most definitely require a second or third listen.
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- Neal
- 2019-03-03
Must-read naval history
Most books that cover the naval history of World War II focus on the war in the Pacific, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean. Mr Symond’s narrative presents the whole arc of naval engagements from the 1930 London Naval Treaty to the 1945 Japanese Instrument of Surrender - from the Baltic Sea to the Gulf of Leyte; from the Bering Strait to the Bay of Bengal - a world at war at sea.
It is well researched, written and narrated (if you set the speed to 1.25)
One of the most compelling threads of this saga is the utter collapse, at every turn, of the British Navy and the amazing courage of the British sailors in the face of that onslaught. After 200 years, it is the final chapter of “Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!”
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-05-09
Very rewarding coverage of entire war effort.
I haven't experienced as thorough a coverage of this world war in such a compact package. Author Symonds gives an astounding walk of the entire War from the Naval aspect while still furnishing the right amount of detail on the other services contributions. And this with a very good description of nationalistic aspects on all of the nations on both sides of the conflict.
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- ROBERT GOFF
- 2019-03-20
Good idea for a book, poorly edited and researched
Numerous factual and editing blunders errors make this a big disappointment. Nothing new from this book, it needs some serious fact checking and editing
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- Dr. Bubba
- 2019-02-14
WIDE Ranging. Paints comprehensive global picture.
Superbly researched and presented. Ties all theaters together to provide a fascinating interlocking view of World War II at sea.
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