This revised edition more fully examines the part the Royal SAustralian Navy played throughout six years of global conflict. New material has been provided by leading naval historians from Australia and overseas and coverage ranges from the exploits of individual ships and men tot eh broad issues of strategy and naval policy. In lively accounts of operations from the Atlantic through to the Mediterranean and the Pacific, both the triumphs and tragedies of war at sea are critically considered. pp. 316 illusts #010115/0518/0120X