Table of Contents
List of Paintings Ian Marshall ix
List of Maps xi
List of Charts and Tables xiii
Preface xv
Part I Setting the Stage
Chapter 1 Prologue: Sea Power and the Sweep of History 3
Chapter 2 Warships and Navies before 1939 17
Chapter 3 Geography, Economics, and Geopolitical Writings 67
Part II Narrative of the Great Naval War, 1939-42
Chapter 4 The Early War at Sea, September 1939-July 1940 107
Chapter 5 The European War at Sea, July 1940-December 1941 143
Chapter 6 A War in Every Sea, 1942 197
Part III The Critical Year of 1943
Chapter 7 Allied Control of the Seas, 1943 241
Chapter 8 The Shift in Global Power Balances, 1943-44 293
Part IV Narrative of the Great Naval War, 1944-45
Chapter 9 Triumph of Allied Sea Power, 1944 333
Chapter 10 The Allied Victory at Sea, 1945 371
Part V Aftermath and Reflections
Chapter 11 Navies and Naval Powers in World War II: An Audit 401
Epilogue. The Sweep of History 431
Appendices. 1943: The Pivotal Year of the War by Three Measures
Appendix A Sinking U-boats in the Dark, May 6, 1943 439
Appendix B A Hypothetical Causation-Chain, from a Bauxite Mountain in Suriname to Air-Sea Victory in the Western Pacific, 1943-44 443
Appendix C America as Number One: Overall Warship Tonnages of the Powers, 1930-60 447
Acknowledgments 449
Notes 453
Bibliography 487
Index 497