Table of Contents

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

About the Author

National University of Singapore

Reviews

"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

"The appearance of Malcolm Murfett's long anticipated single-volume operational history of the naval aspects of the Second World War fill a quite unique place in the scholarship of the war . . . It is wonderful that a single scholar has managed to complete a monumental work such as this . . . It should find its way into naval libraries, and perhaps especially into the smaller private and public libraries that need a genearl narrative and reference to the naval war at sea. Those for whom the price is not a problem will find it a useful part of their private collection." --International Journal of Maritime History