
Fighting Admirals of World War II
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One of his most recent publications is The Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles. He is also well known as a writer of military history and provide the British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand material for On Seas Contested- The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War, published in 2010 by the Naval Institute Press in the United States and which won the Stonebooks award for "The Best Non-Fiction book on World War II" to have been published that year.'
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The War at Sea - Europe and the North Atlantic
- Chapter 2: The War at Sea - The Far East
- Chapter 3: The US Navy
- Chapter 4: Overcautious or Simply Unlucky?
- Chapter 5: A 'Bull' in a China Shop
- Chapter 6: Fighting on Two Fronts
- Chapter 7: Seeing Pearl Harbor as a Blessing
- Chapter 8: Decisive in Action and Cool in Planning
- Chapter 9: The Royal Navy
- Chapter 10: 'ABC'
- Chapter 11: Victor of the North Cape
- Chapter 12: Poacher Turned Gamekeeper
- Chapter 13: 'Catnapping at meetings'
- Chapter 14: The Admiral who Evacuated the British Army from France, and Sent it Back Again
- Chapter 15: Dash and Daring
- Chapter 16: Sinking the Bismarck
- Chapter 17: The Royal Netherlands Navy
- Chapter 18: Outnumbered, Outgunned and Outclassed!
- Chapter 19: The French Navy
- Chapter 20: An Enigma
- Chapter 21: The German Navy
- Chapter 22: Advocate of Unrestricted U-boat Warfare
- Chapter 23: Builder of the Kriegsmarine
- Chapter 24: The Italian Navy
- Chapter 25: The New Broom
- Chapter 26: The Imperial Japanese Navy
- Chapter 27: An Overcautious Commander
- Chapter 28: Japan's Most Successful Commander at Sea
- Chapter 29: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
- Chapter 30: The Last Japanese C-in-C
- Chapter 31: Commanding Defeat
- Chapter 32: Planning the War, Expecting defeat
- Chapter 33: Defining Leadership at Sea
- Bibliography
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