The Two-Ocean War

The Two Ocean War by U.S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, is a short version of his multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. This one-volume book is quite similar to the longer version, as despite the name, "A short History", the book retains the same number of chapters with a total of 611 pages.

First edition

Contents

1. The Twenty Years' Peace, 1919 - 1939
2. Short of War, 1939-1941
3. Disaster at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
4. Disaster in the Far East, July 1941 - May 1942
5. Destruction in the Atlantic, 1942
6. Carrier Strikes, Coral Sea and Midway, December 1941 - April 1942
7. Guadalcanal, August 1942 - February 1943
8. North Africa and Sicily (Operations Torch and Husky), January 1942 - August 1943
9. Forward in the Pacific, March 1943 - April 1944
10. Gilberts and Marshalls, November 1943 - July 1944
11. New Guinea and the Marianas, April - August 1944
12. Mediterranean and Atlantic, August 1943 - June 1944
13. The Navy in the Invasion of France, 1944
14. Leyte, September - December 1944
15. The Philippines and Submarine Operations, 13 December 1944 to 15 August 1945
16. Iwo Jima and Okinawa, February - August 1945
17. The End of the War, November 1944 - September 1945
18. Conclusion

Published 1963 by Little, Brown and Company, Library of Congress Catalog 63-8307 (first ed.).