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From the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 through to the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, the sea shaped the course and conduct of the war. Although individual campaigns, innovations, and personalities have received ample attention over the decades, the role of the sea as a whole has increasingly been marginalized in the wartime historiography. As the war grew in complexity and covered an increasingly larger geographical area, the organization of the maritime effort and the impact it had on the formulation of national strategy also evolved. This volume seeks to illustrate the impact the sea had on the Second World War by highlighting selected topics previously neglected in the scholarship. In doing so, it provides new insights into political, strategic, administrative, and operational aspects of the maritime dimension of the war.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Submarines (Ships) --- Navies --- Military power --- Navy --- Armed Forces --- Naval art and science --- Sea-power --- Warships --- Submarine boats --- Subs (Ships) --- Submersibles --- Naval operations. --- Naval operations --- Submarine. --- History --- Amphibious operations. --- Combined operations --- Landing operations --- Submarine operations --- Battles, sieges, etc. --- Military operations

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While the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was a pivotal moment in European history and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War western historiography has largely neglected Northern Europe. Two questions dominated the course of events, the Anglo-German contest for control of the access to the Atlantic Ocean and the Soviet-German contest for control of their former territories as a precursor to the future Total War they expected to wage against each other. This anthology of 23 essays considers both these issues collectively and provides a new international perspective on the region’s transition from the relative peace of the interwar era to the all out war following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Contributors are Azar Gat, Michael Epkenhans, Andrew Lambert, Tom Kristiansen, Rolf Hobson, Gunnar Åselius, Jörg Hillmann, Werner Rahn, Sławomir Dębski, Ole Kristian Grimnes, Česlovas Laurinavičius, Alfred Erich Senn, Lars Ericson Wolke, Karl Erik Haug, Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Toomas Hiio, Magnus Ilmjärv, Palle Roslyng-Jensen ,Hans Christian Bjerg, Valters Ščerbinskis, Michael H. Clemmesen, and Marcus Faulkner.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Campaigns --- Naval operations. --- Diplomatic history. --- Baltic Sea --- Europe, Northern --- Scandinavia --- Baltic Sea Region --- History, Naval --- Strategic aspects.