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James Hornfischer, author of ''Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors'' and ''Neptune's Inferno''. }}
This is the official history of the [[Exactly What It Says
The full series is a fifteen volume set. A summery is also published called ''The Two Ocean War'' for those who wish to go to less effort. The whole series is written in a magisterial style and gives encyclopedic information about the war. To this day it has not become dated and is still respected by military historians as the go-to book for naval warfare.
The volumes are:
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Operations in North African Waters, October 1942 - June 1943
The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931 - April 1942
Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942 - August 1942
The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 - February 1943
Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942 - 1 May 1944
Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls, June 1942 - April 1944
New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 - August 1944
Sicily - Salerno - Anzio, January 1943 - June 1944
The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943 - May 1945
The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944–1945
Leyte, June 1944 - January 1945
The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944–1945
Victory in the Pacific, 1945
Supplement and General Index }}
And the abridgement
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▲* [[Backed By the Pentagon]]: Naturally, as it is an official history.
* [[Badass]]: Tons of badasses and lots of badassery
* [[Badass Army|Badass Navy]]: The US Navy obviously. Other navies as well perhaps but this is naturally the focus
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* [[Big Book of War]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The author several times.
* [[Doorstopper]]: [[
* [[Earth Is a Battlefield]]
* [[Father Neptune]]: Morrison already liked sailing before the war, and personally sailed to several places researching earlier books. Even if that were not the case no one could spend as much time doing hands on research as the author did without ending up as a [[Father Neptune]]. Several of the sailors and officers he meets are this as well.
* [[Flaunting Your Fleets]]
* [[Gentleman and
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: The author
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Or as the author says, "The navy could probably win a war without coffee but it wouldn't like to try."
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Naturally to be expected from a '40s-'50s New Englander.
* [[Purple Prose]]
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]
* [[Semper Fi]]
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]
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