Vincent P OHara: 4 books
To Crown the Waves
The Great Navies of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine,...
Struggle for the Middle Sea
The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet remarkably little has been written about the subject. This fresh study of the Mediterranean's naval war analyzes the actions and performances...
by Vincent P. OHara
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational...
In Passage Perilous
Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
An invaluable account of one of the most overlooked sea battles of World War II.
By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold....