Yale University Press Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Having read many articles, books and the biographies of King, Nimitz and Spruance on the subject I found this book a great unbiased review of the the actions during this period with excellent detail. It has also inspired me to research further of the events in the Pacific including the involvement of the Royal Navy towards the end of the Pacific War. The British aircraft carriers had a major benefit of the armoured deck over the American carriers which enabled them to continue action even when hit by kamikaze.

Concur with David’s Review.. You had better read Buell, Potter, Morison & Toll to understand this book.

This got rather bogged down in model type numbers and history prior to what happened and skipped over much of the core battles. It felt like a history of the US navy rather than the battles themselves. I still enjoyed it for that though. Also the editing - I mean so many poorly constructed sentences and words that should have just been removed, never mind the misuse of ‘there’ at times. If you paid for an editor I’d get your money back Mr Mawdsley!

Good book. This book is not a war adventure story but a telling of the different factors that came together to produce the dominant American carrier fleet in 1944. Also Japanese weakness that added to their essential weakness.

book for those people interested in task force 58 the largest armada ever to put to sea.