by EVAN MAWDSLEY (Yale University Press – £25.00) ISBN 978 0 300 19019 9 568 pages Professor Mawdsley was Professor of International History at Glasgow University and thus amply qualified to write an overview of the war at sea, giving its overall strategic and economic context. One reviewer has called it “the first fully integrated account of a truly global dimension to the war”. The author sets the scene in his introduction with an account of Operation TORCH in November 1942, thereby emphasising that even at that stage in the war not only were the Allies already able to move large numbers of…
