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The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War Two
by Evan Mawdsley.
Yale, 557 pp., £25, August 2019,978 0 300 19019 9 Show More
by Evan Mawdsley.
Yale, 557 pp., £25, August 2019,
“... There can scarcely be a subject about which more books have been written than the Second World War, and yet surprisingly few of them risk a synthesis of the whole. Many writers refer to the war in their titles, but their subjects are usually only a part of the whole: a campaign, a geographical area, a single country or, very often, a single armed service ... ”