1918 The First World War at Sea in photographs

1918 The First World War at Sea in photographs

1943 The Second World War in Photographs

1943 The Second World War in Photographs

1942 The Second World War at Sea in photographs

Series: The Second World War at Sea in Photographs

Publication Date15th October 2015

Book FormatPaperback

pages128

Illustrations200

Height234

Width165

A unique look at the fourth year of the Second World War at sea, through the medium of old photographs.
Regular Price £18.99 Online Price: £17.09
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ISBN
9781445622491

As 1942, the fourth year of the war, began, victory for the Allies was still a long way off. German submarines were sinking ships off the coast of the United States in what would become known as the ‘Second Happy Time’ for the U-boat crews while Allied vessels were falling victim to Japanese aircraft and warships in the Far East. Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen made their dash through the Channel to German waters while in the Arctic the battleship Tirpitz and German aircraft and submarines menaced the convoys supplying Russia.


However, convoys continued to get through to supply beleaguered Malta despite heavy losses to submarines and aircraft, and in the Pacific the US Navy inflicted defeats on the Japanese at the key battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, battles in which the major vessels never actually saw each other, fighting with carrier-borne aircraft instead. Troops were landed on the island of Guadalcanal and in North Africa.


In this book, Phil Carradice uses many rarely seen images to tell the story of the Second World War at Sea in 1942.

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