On Seas Contested; The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War

Includes List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, and an Introduction, as well as Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover France: The Marine Nationale; Germany: The Kriegsmarine; Great Britain: The Royal Navy; Italy: The Regia Marina; Japan: The Teikoku Kaigun; USA: The United States Navy; and USSR: The Voenno-morskoi Flot SSSR. Also contains Notes, Bibliography, and an Index, as well as appendixes on Guns and Torpedoes, Comparative Ranks, and Conversions and Abbreviations, Contains 30 photographs, 32 tables, 10 charts, and 7 maps. This book contains much rarely encountered information that the specialist will find valuable, yet it is written in an accessible style and covers topics that will appeal to the general reader. It's multi-national orientation delivers a fresh view of the Naval War in contrast to many English-language accounts that are written from the perspective of the American and British victors. Vincent P. O'Hara (born 24 December 1951) is a naval author and historian. Vincent O'Hara is an independent scholar with a degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley. O'Hara has authored, co-authored or edited twelve books and contributed articles to publications, including Naval War College Review, MHQ, Storia Militare, Seaforth World Naval Review, America in WWII, World War II, and World War II History. He was an assistant editor of ABC Clio's Encyclopedia of World War II at Sea and has written introductions to two volumes of the U.S. Naval Operations in World War II series by Samuel E. Morison republished by the U.S. Naval Institute. An international team of naval historians and scholars, including John Jordan (France), Peter Schenk with Karsten Klein, Dr. Axel Niestle, Dieter Thomaier and Berndt R. Wenzel (Germany), David Wragg (Great Britain), Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent O'Hara (Italy) Mark Peattie (Japan), Trent Hone (United States) and Stephen McLaughliln (USSR) has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each navy has its own chapter, which covers such key features as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine. In bringing together data buried in specialized works in various languages, the authors deliver a fresh, multinational view of the naval war.…