Contents

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Glossary

  1. ‘We’ll Send a Strong Fleet!’ – Fortress Singapore

  2. The Opponents

  3. Aircraft Carriers and Carrier-Borne Aircraft

  4. Crippling the US Pacific Fleet – the Attack on Pearl Harbor

  5. Japan Sweeps Westwards

  6. Striking Back

  7. Advancing Across the Pacific

  8. God Damn Josephus Daniels! – the Royal Navy Returns to the East

  9. Leyte Gulf – the Largest Naval Battle

10. Kamikaze

11. The Submarine War

12. Formosa and Okinawa

13. What Might Have Been?

Chronology

Bibliography