THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945

The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at seawhich were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatestheroism. Here is a generous selection of personal experience written bythe men and women who were there: in the British and Commonwealth Navies,the Fleet Air Arm, the Merchant Navy, or ashore. Names which have passedinto history - Narvik, Dunkirk, the River Plate, the Bismarck, theScharnhorst, Crete, Anzio, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Russian convoys- all these and many others are reflected in these gripping eyewitnesstestimonies. This is the first volume in the unique "Freedom's Battle"trilogy, which provides intensely vivid accounts of war at sea, in the airand on land. Far better than any single narrative, the extracts build up acomplete picture of the War as it was experienced by the men and women whoactually fought in it.