American naval actions of World War II comprise the most widespread, complex, and dramatic battles in the history of sea warfare. The fighting took place over v

This book includes the principal ships that were engaged in the war at sea between 1939 and 1945. The mighty battleships and cruisers that roamed the oceans, gr

Following the First World War the major naval powers entered into an agreement restricting the construction of capital ships and limiting the numbers that signa