Although this is a well-trodden path, the author, who taught at the US Naval War College for over 30 years, brings a freshness and a welcome objectivity to this vast subject in a single volume. This is not, however, history written by the victors. Rather it is a forensic and scholarly examination of all the major protagonists but narrated in the finest traditions of a rollickingly good naval saga. Altogether, a must for non-landlubbers.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 99 Winter 2021 ) |
