TY - GEN AU - Grove,Philip D. AU - Grove,Mark J. AU - Finlan,Alastair TI - The Second World War, Vol. 3 SN - 9780203498828 PY - 2003/// PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Humanities KW - bicssc KW - Military history KW - Second World War KW - Naval forces & warfare KW - royal KW - navy KW - merchant KW - ships KW - german KW - scapa KW - flow KW - graf KW - spee KW - surface N1 - Open Access N2 - This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theaters of combat: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a critical contest, as sea-lanes provided the logistical arteries for British and subsequent Allied armies fighting on the three continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Land forces ultimately won World War II, but the battles at sea fundamentally altered the balance of military power on the ground UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8e89a9d5-a0ff-4ee8-8935-16aa5f5c12d1/1006048.pdf UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24084 ER -