Recent movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line have vividly depicted the face of land battle in the Second World War, but the story of the American war is incomplete without the sweep and strategic stakes of the war at sea, in which 104,985 American sailors and Marines were wounded, 56,683 were killed, and more than 500 U.S. naval vessels were sunk.
The Atlantic posts a 1999 article by David Kennedy, Victory at Sea, “the dramatic story of the war as it was waged upon the oceans.” Kennedy is a highly-regarded, prize-winning historian at Stanford.
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