Marcus Faulkner is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. His research interests are divided between 20th-century naval and intelligence history, with emphasis on the German navy of the inter-war years. He is the author of The Great War at Sea, published in 2012 to great acclaim.
In an age when people flock to the internet for information and visual stimulation, it is reassuring to know that books - the printed page sandwiched between cloth covers - still have the power to delight and inform. This is certainly the case with Marcus Faulkner's The War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939-1945. It is not only an information tour de force but its bright and crisp colour maps make it very pleasing to the eye (and the brain). You won't need your battery charged to view it…Faulkner has produced a reflective piece of serious scholarship that is both extremely useful and a visual delight. It will be a welcome addition to the libraries of amateurs and scholars alike." -- International Journal of Maritime History "War at Sea is a valuable and highly recommended reference source...a must acquisition for research libraries." -- Naval History Book Reviews "Altogether this makes for fascinating reading. Not all at once--that's not the purpose. But as a reference book, to be opened and looked at, event by event, or as a reference tool--for those text volumes that have provided inadequate illustrative maps. The maps are easy to interpret, even for highly complicated actions such as Operation Vigorous of RAdm Vian's force against the Italian battleships in June 1942, or more general long term operations, such as a chart for "German E-Boat Attacks 1940-1945" (in the Channel, p.141), the latter including a box of "Approximate Strength of S-Boat Force" by half-yearly periods. Apart from the operational maps themselves, these small added details make the volume a most valuable addition to any bookshelf--or coffee table." -- Starshell
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