The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
Drawing on intelligence documents, ship logs, official reports and interviews with surviving servicemen, this book gives a comprehensive history of the sea battles of World War II. Equal weight is given to the four primary navies - those of the US, Britain, Germany and Japan.