In 1943, Operation Source unfolded off Norway's coast. In a secret mission, the British Navy deployed X-class midget ...

Obsessed with “game-changing” Wunderwaffen (“wonder weapons”) Adolf Hitler squandered vast resources on the development and construction of monster war machines that proved to have little operational ...

Tirpitz’s sinking not only removed a major threat to Allied convoys but also symbolized the waning power of Nazi Germany and the rise of Allied supremacy in the Atlantic.

The long-standing controversy of sea power v. air power was settled once and for all by the Hood-Bismarck affair and by the battle for Crete. The answer was not that air power had proved indisputably ...

U.S. Navy planners in the Pacific, still overestimating the value of battleships, could have been less daring in their absence and fought a holding action until late 1942 or 1943. Had things been ...