Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris).

'A concise and compelling one-volume account of the Royal Navy in WWII by a talented historian.' Joe Maiolo, author of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 'The tale of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is one that deserves to be told; and this book tells it exceptionally well. Vivid and immensely readable, it captures the drama of the unfolding events while also explaining their wider significance in the war. Drawing on modern scholarship as well as original sources, it retells some familiar stories but also corrects a few myths and fills in some less well known episodes. This fine book achieves the difficult aim of doing justice to the part played in the Second World War by the Royal Navy.' - Tim Benbow, Defence Studies Department, King's College London

• IntroductionChapter 1 Opening moves: Home waters and the Atlantic September 1939-June 1940Chapter 2Home waters and the Atlantic July 1940-December 1941Chapter 3 Mediterranean June/July 1940-December 1941Chapter 4Far East December 1941-Jan 1944Chapter 5Home waters and the Atlantic January 1942- VE dayChapter 6Mediterranean January 1942-VE dayChapter 7The British Pacific FleetEpilogueDemobilisation and after.

Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris).

'A concise and compelling one-volume account of the Royal Navy in WWII by a talented historian.' Joe Maiolo, author of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 'The tale of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is one that deserves to be told; and this book tells it exceptionally well. Vivid and immensely readable, it captures the drama of the unfolding events while also explaining their wider significance in the war. Drawing on modern scholarship as well as original sources, it retells some familiar stories but also corrects a few myths and fills in some less well known episodes. This fine book achieves the difficult aim of doing justice to the part played in the Second World War by the Royal Navy.' - Tim Benbow, Defence Studies Department, King's College London

• IntroductionChapter 1 Opening moves: Home waters and the Atlantic September 1939-June 1940Chapter 2Home waters and the Atlantic July 1940-December 1941Chapter 3 Mediterranean June/July 1940-December 1941Chapter 4Far East December 1941-Jan 1944Chapter 5Home waters and the Atlantic January 1942- VE dayChapter 6Mediterranean January 1942-VE dayChapter 7The British Pacific FleetEpilogueDemobilisation and after.

Duncan Redford is Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN). He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter and is the author of The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat (I.B.Tauris).

'A concise and compelling one-volume account of the Royal Navy in WWII by a talented historian.' Joe Maiolo, author of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War 1931-1941 'The tale of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is one that deserves to be told; and this book tells it exceptionally well. Vivid and immensely readable, it captures the drama of the unfolding events while also explaining their wider significance in the war. Drawing on modern scholarship as well as original sources, it retells some familiar stories but also corrects a few myths and fills in some less well known episodes. This fine book achieves the difficult aim of doing justice to the part played in the Second World War by the Royal Navy.' - Tim Benbow, Defence Studies Department, King's College London

• IntroductionChapter 1 Opening moves: Home waters and the Atlantic September 1939-June 1940Chapter 2Home waters and the Atlantic July 1940-December 1941Chapter 3 Mediterranean June/July 1940-December 1941Chapter 4Far East December 1941-Jan 1944Chapter 5Home waters and the Atlantic January 1942- VE dayChapter 6Mediterranean January 1942-VE dayChapter 7The British Pacific FleetEpilogueDemobilisation and after.