Stephen Wentworth Roskill: 3 books

The War at Sea is essential reading for anyone interested in World War 2. It's breadth and deep of coverage of the historical detail is without equal. Only Morisons 'US Naval Operations in WWII' compares but it is totally focused on the USN and does not start till 1941. This is not a combat narrative,...

Comprehensive, detailed, beautifully written, this is the last volume of the superb history of the naval war 1939 to 1945. This volume is mostly focused on the battles in the Pacific, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf, the Battle of the Bismarck, but it also covers the final surrenders in the Atlantic. The...

The third volume of a great literary and historical work. There is nothing like in the US official histories or the other British (HMSO) histories. Detailed and comprehensive, the writer has a complete understanding of how WWII fits into the background of naval history and strategy. He quotes extensively...