Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sea power in the age of Churchill -- Apprenticeship, 1900-14 -- Learning curve: The First World War -- Adjusting to the post-war world, 1919-24 -- The treasury years: the ten-year-rule, Japanese 'Bogey,' and 'Yankee Menace' -- Disarmament, rearmament, and the path to war: the 1930s -- First Lord of the Admiralty, 1939-40: The Phoney War and the Norwegian Campaign -- The war against Germany and Italy, 1940-1 -- 'Courting disaster' : the deterrence of Japan and the dispatch of Force Z -- The Battle of the Atlantic, the imports crisis, and the closing of the 'Air Gap' -- The defeat of the Axis Powers -- Churchill's last naval battle -- Epilogue: The verdict of history.…”

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