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Victory at Sea
Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
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A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II. "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."βIan W. Toll, New York Times "The book makes for enjoyable reading, owing...
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A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II.
"When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."βIan W. Toll, New York Times
"The book makes for enjoyable reading, owing to the author's easygoing style. . . . Kennedy is an academic who does not write like one; he writes a story, not a treatise."βRobert D. Kaplan, Washington Post
"Engrossing."βBrendan Simms, Wall Street Journal
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall's beautiful full-colour 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 Warβthe allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and JapanβKennedy 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.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300276787
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 June 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 83 color illus.
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Ian Marshall
- Illustrated by Ian Marshall
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 644
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 or editor of more than twenty books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Ian Marshall was a fellow and past president of the American Society of Marine Artists as well as a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. He wrote and illustrated numerous works, including Armored Ships and Ironclads and Paddlers.
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