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On Seas Contested
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On Seas Contested: The
Seven Great Navies of the Second World War is an
unprecedented collaboration by an international team of naval
historians who have pooled their expertise
to explain how the major navies of the Second World War were organized,
how they trained, how they planned to operate and how they
fought. Table of Contents
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This site
provides information that it was not possible to
include in the book. This includes author information and links to
their works;
expanded notes and bibliography, news and
reviews of the book and errata. We add content frequently
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Endorsements
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NORMAN FRIEDMAN, author of Network-Centric Warfare and Naval Firepower
"This ground-breaking books seeks only to look deeper at the main
navies which fought WWII, but to do so in a way which encourges the
reader to compare them, to see what made them so different in
action. The approach is vital for our understanding of the
greatest naval war in history. The writers, moreover, have used
non-English language sources for the non-English language navies, and
in so doing have greatly enlarged our traditional view of World War II
at sea. If you want to understand that war, you have to read this
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JONATHAN PARSHALL, co-author
of Shattered Sword: The Untold
Battle of
Midway
"At last a comprehensive, structured comparison of the navies of World
War II. On Seas Contested examines
not just ships, but all the myriad factors that drove these
navies--their strategies, geographic constraints, training, and so on.
Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field, this is a book
that is front and center in my personal library."
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The Authors and Editors
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Editors:
Vincent P. O'Hara:
author of five books including Struggle for the Middle Sea
W. David Dickson: author
of Battle
of the Philippine Sea
Richard Worth:
author of three books including Fleets of World War II
Authors:
(Click on the flags above for more information)
FRANCE: John
Jordan, co-author of French
Battleships 1922-1956 and editor of the annual Warship
GERMANY: Dr.
Peter Schenk with Karsten Klein, Alex
Niestlé,
Dieter Thomaier & Berndt
R.Wenzel
GREAT BRITAIN:
David Wragg, author
of over twenty books including The
Royal Navy Handbook
ITALY:Enrico
Cernuschi & Vincent P. O'Hara: Cernuschi
has
authored fifteen books including Fecero
tutti
il loro dovere
JAPAN. Mark
Peattie: author of Kaigun
(with David Evans)
and Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese
Naval
Airpower
USA. Trent
Hone, co-author of Battleline:
The United States Navy 1919-1939
USSR. Stephen
McLaughlin, author of Russian
and Soviet Battleships
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Latest news
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Stone and Stone has selected On
Seas Contested
as one of 2010's outstanding works on World War Two. They say:
"A splendid distillation of key information
about the major navies of WWII, constructed in parallel fashion, making
it easy to compare and contrast how each nation waged the war at sea."
2010 Editor's
Choice Awards
Congratulations. The Naval History & Heritage Command
and the Naval Historical Foundation have awared Trent Hone, author of
the USA chapter, the 2009 Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval
History for the best article on the history of the U.S. Navy published
in a scholarly journal. This is for "U.S. Navy Surface Battle Doctrine
and Victory in the Pacific," published in the Winter 2009 issue of the
Naval War College Review.
October 27: Added: Expanded
footnotes for the Soviet chapter.
September 30: Added: An essay by David Dickson with
Enrico Cernuschi, John Jordan and Stephen McLaughlin on radar.
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Errata
The jacket caption
is incorrect. The front cover actually shows the Italian battleships Conte di Cavour followed by Cesare leaving Naples on
5 May
1938.
There
is error on the Japanese bases map. See corrected map here
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