Naval Warfare 1919-45

Malcolm Murfett is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of a number of works on naval themes, including Fool-proof Relations: The Search for Anglo-American Naval cooperation in the Chamberlain Years, 1937-40 (1985), Hostage on the Yangtze: Britain, China and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949 (1991), and the co-written Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from First Settlement to Final British withdrawal . He is also the editor of The First Sea Lords (1999).

• Abbreviations. Glossary. List of Maps. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Neither One Thing nor the Other (1919–39) 2. The Opening Gambit (1939) 3. Much More Than a Phoney War (1940) 4. Uncompromising Hostilities (January – November 1941) 5. From Pearl Harbor to Madagascar (December 1941 – May 1942) 6. Stalling the Juggernaut in the Early Summer of 1942 7. From Defence to Attack in the Autumn of 1942 8. A Change in Momentum (January – August 1943) 9. Striking Back (September – December 1943) 10. Seizing the Initiative (January – August 1944) 11. Tightening the Grip (September – December 1944) 12. Stranglehold (1945). Conclusion: Rising to the Challenge of Fighting the War at Sea. Appendix I: Allied Convoy Statistics (1939-45). Appendix II: Units of Measurement – Conversion Equivalents. Select Bibliography. Index

"At times breathless and colloquial, some of its assessments may raise the blood pressure of elderly veterans, but it is altogether a refreshing, astoundingly comprehensive, technologically aware work of great merit. It is a well balanced account, free from the history by the winners' biases of earlier generations. In Malcolm Murfett the maritime history of the Second World War has found its master historian." - Michael Simpson, University of Wales, UKStudents will find this a quite invaluable guide to modern naval history..... From the point of view of naval history both as an accessible record and explanation of events, and as an intellectual discipline, Naval Warfare 1919-1945 is a truly remarkable book and is highly recommended....." - Geoffrey Till, Kings College London, UK