but Symonds manages to discuss all the major decisions and cover the events of the war at sea in some detail, even delving into the operations of the smaller naval powers. That the book is so full of ...

C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($3.95). This book again proves that Cecil Scott Forester is the best living writer about the sea. It is a war novel (first published in LIFE) that neither whines ...

the war at sea, the battle against Iraq's Scud missiles and weapons of mass destruction, and the strategic and grand strategic lessons of the war. The book concludes with an analysis of the lessons of ...

However, there was another side to the conflict – the war at sea. In 1916, the Battle of Jutland saw the war’s largest naval battle as the navies of Britain and Germany fought for control of ...