Martin Bowman’s considerable experience as a military historian has spanned over forty years, during which time he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and corresponding with numerous men and women and their relatives, in Britain, America and beyond, resulting in a wealth of material on the war at sea from World War One to the Falklands and the wars on terror.

All these narratives have been woven into a highly readable and emotional outpouring of life and death in action in all his titles, as here, in World War Two, where the men of the Fleet Air Arm and the US Navy fighter (operating bomber and torpedo carrying aircraft) describe the compelling, gripping and thought-provoking narrative of the air war in the freezing Atlantic wastes to the waters of the mighty Pacific.

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• Contents
• Chapter 1: Thank God for The Navy! (April 1940)
• Chapter 2: Biplanes Against Battleships – Operation ‘Judgement’ (11–12 November 1940)
• Chapter 3: Operation ‘Excess’ (January 1941)
• Chapter 4: Hunting the Bismarck: (May 1941)
• Chapter 5: Unternehmen ‘Donnerkeil-Zerberus’ (February 1942)
• Chapter 6: Sink The Tirpitz! (9 March 1942 – 29 August 1944)
• Chapter 7: Hunting the Hunters
• Chapter 8: Pearl Harbor and the US Pacific Fleet
• Chapter 9: Attack On Davao (19 December 1941)
• Chapter 10: Battle of the Coral Sea (4–8 May 1942)
• Chapter 11: The Battle of Midway (4–7 June 1942)
• Chapter 12: The Battle for the Solomons (August–November 1942)
• Chapter 13: The Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944)
• Chapter 14: The British Pacific Fleet
• Chapter 15: Towards the Final Downfall