Reviews

At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century by Ronald H. Spector

zelanator's review

4.0

This is a great overview of naval developments during the twentieth century in Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, the U.S., Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Spector describes both the major naval battles and their participants' experiences with equal clarity. He has some thematic threads about man's relationship to changing technology, psychological trauma, and the social basis of officer and enlisted corps in the different navies.

Great read. Covers the Russo-Japanese War through Vietnam, with some limited commentary on wars and conflicts through the 1990s.