The Two-Ocean War

a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War

Plot

... a grand and wholly engaging distillation of Morison's definitive fifteen-volume history of U.S. naval operations in World War II ... this is a blazing record of action from Pearl Harbor to the long war of attrition between submarines and convoys in the Atlantic, through Midway and Guadalcanal, to the invasion of continental Europe, to Okinawa, Leyte, and the final grudging surrender of the Japanese. Morison's narrative is rich enough to reveal all levels of each wartime encounter, dramatizing the strategic arguments that went on between Churchill and King, between MacArthur and Nimitz, as well as highlighting the glory of individual feats of arms ...