The Greatest Naval War Ever Fought: 1939-1945

The greatest naval conflict in history was unquestionably that which took place during the Second World War.The geographical spread was global and involved dozens of nations, and it was a conflict that involved more than 15,000 ships and 43.7 million tons of shipping, while some 570,000 lives were lost at sea.Vince O’Hara captures every aspect of that vast naval conflict and provides a complete and panoramic single-volume history.The naval action begins in the Baltic Sea before dawn on 1 September 1939, when a German battleship opened fire on Polish troops barricaded in a fortress in the port city of Danzig, Poland.Over the ensuing nine months, the conflict spread into Great Britain’s home waters of the North Sea, the English Channel, and the eastern Atlantic; and in that theatre the battle against the U-boat grew into one of the most epic aspects of the whole war.One of the most remarkable naval achievements of the war occurred in 1940 during the German invasion of Norway when the Kri