Imperial War Museum
Book of the War at Sea

By Julian Thompson
1997
ISBN: 0-283-06308-4
280 p. illus.
$39.50 Paper

OUT OF PRINT

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This book is part of an acclaimed series of books published in cooperation with the Imperial War Museum. They provide the authentic voice of the combatant in great dramas of British military history and contain mainly unpublished material, textual, visual and oral, from the immense archives of the museum. The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea is the story of nearly six years war at sea during the Second World War, as seen by British sailors, from Ordinary Seamen to Admirals, in their memoirs, diaries, letters, and taped interviews. It is illustrated by over a hundred photographs and twenty color paintings. Contents include: the sinking of the Graf Spee; Dunkirk; The Battle of the Atlantic; The sinking of the Bismarck; The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse; War in the Pacific.

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