Book launch: Supremacy at Sea by Professor Evan Mawdsley
Published: 10 October 2024
Friday 25 October 2024
Introduced by Professor Phillips O'Brien, University of St Andrews
Friday, 25 October, 2024, 5:15pm
10 University Gardens (Room TBC)
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory (Yale University Press, 2024) is an account of the U.S. Navy’s 3,500 mile advance in the first six months of 1944. It was a campaign that reached the approaches to the Japanese mainland and inflicted a decisive defeat. The broader significance of these events was that they marked the achievement of American supremacy over the Imperial Japanese Navy and also over the navy of the America’s British ally. This global naval supremacy of the United States has lasted eighty years. Evan Mawdsley is a former Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow. His previous book, The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II, won the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research as the best maritime history of 2019.
Professor Phillips P. O’Brien is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews and is the author of The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff.
First published: 10 October 2024
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