This global narrative account of the maritime history of World War Two presents a cohesive chronology of the wartime experience of the world's navies, from the London Conference of 1930 to the surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945.

• Prologue: London, 1930




• PART I. THE EUROPEAN WAR


• 1. Unterseebooten


• 2. Panzerschiffen


• 3. Norway


• 4. France Falls


• 5. The Regia Marina


• 6. The War on Trade, I


• 7. The Bismarck




• PART II. THE WAR WIDENS


• 8. The Rising Sun


• 9. A Two Ocean Navy


• 10. Infamy


• 11. Rampage


• 12. The War on Trade, II




• PART III. WATERSHED


• 13. Stemming the Tide


• 14. Two Beleaguered Islands


• 15. A Two Ocean War


• 16. The Tipping Point


• 17. The War on Trade, III




• PART IV. ALLIED COUNTERATTACK


• 18. Airplanes and Convoys


• 19. Husky


• 20. Twilight of Two Navies


• 21. Breaking the Shield


• 22. Large Slow Target




• PART V. RECKONING


• 23. D-Day


• 24. Seeking the Decisive Battle


• 25. Leyte Gulf


• 26. The Noose Tightens


• 27. Denouement




• Epilogue: Tokyo Bay, 1945




• Afterword

Craig L. Symonds is Ernest J. King Distinguished Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College and also Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy where he taught for thirty years and served as Department Chair.