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

xvi, 335 pages. Vincent P. O'Hara is a naval historian and the author of The German Fleet at War (2004), The U.S. Navy Against the Axis (2007), The Struggle for the Middle Sea (2009), Dark Navy (co-author 2009), On Seas Contested (editor, 2010), In Passage Perilous (2012), To Crown the Waves (editor 2013), Black Phoenix (co-author 2013), Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (2015), and Clash of Fleets: Naval Battles of the Great War (co-author 2017), and Six Victories, North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941-March 1942 (2019). Naval Institute Press awarded O'Hara 2015 Author of the Year. He represented the United States at the Operation Torch 75th anniversary commemorations held in Algiers and Oran, Algeria. O'Hara's work has also appeared in periodicals and annuals including Naval History, Naval War College Review, Warship, MHQ, World War II Magazine, World War II Quarterly, Seaforth Naval Review, American in WWII, WWII History, and Storia Militare. O'Hara holds a history degree from the University of California, Berkeley. W. David Dickson, an expert on Japanese naval doctrine and carrier design, is an author who lives in Hernando, Mr. Richard Worth specializes in warship design. He is the author of several books. 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 its 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.…