At War at Sea - Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century

Penguin Books, 2002

From early ironclad battleships to the nuclear-powered submarines of today, 20th century naval warfare has been marked by huge technological advances. However, Spector's gripping history shows that, avove all, it was the men inside these armoured giants who created victory or defeat. What was it like to serve in a submarine in the Atlantic, to be fired at by shells in the Battle of Jutland or raided by kamikaze pilots in WW2? At War at Sea tells the story of the naval conflicts that defined the modern age, through the eyes of the sailors who fought in them - from the epic Battle of Tsushima in 1905 to the sophisticated missile engagements off the Persian Gulf and beyond...