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Naval Warfare 1919–45 is a comprehensive history of the war at sea from the end of the Great War to the end of World War Two. Showing the bewildering nature and complexity of the war facing those charged with fighting it around the world, this book ranges far and wide: sweeping across all naval theatres and those powers performing major, as well as minor, roles within them. Armed with the latest material from an extensive set of sources, Malcolm H. Murfett has written an absorbing as well as a comprehensive reference work. He demonstrates that superior equipment and the best intelligence, ominous power and systematic planning, vast finance and suitable training are often simply not enough in themselves to guarantee the successful outcome of a particular encounter at sea. Sometimes the narrow difference between victory and defeat hinges on those infinite variables: the individual’s performance under acute pressure and sheer luck. Naval Warfare 1919–45 is an analytical and interpretive study which is an accessible and fascinating read both for students and for interested members of the general public.

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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, UK Students 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

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, UK Students 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

"""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, UK Students 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"

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