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(More customer reviews)"The Winning Edge, Naval Technology in Action, 1939-1945", by Kenneth Poolman, NIP, 1997. This book is not about naval technology. The VT fuse gets only one line. Rather, it is about naval battles fought in World War Two that involved some technology. That would be almost all of them. The list is what you would expect: airplanes, submarines, radar and sonar. Even building an undersized aircraft carrier to use up allowed treaty tonnage is considered a technological edge in this book. You will learn little about WW2 naval technology or its development from this book.
But, take away the expectation of reading about technology and what is left is a readable book that recounts numerous naval battles. It is short on detail, strategy, people and bloodshed. What is left is the activities of things (ships, airplanes, torpedoes). There is no theme, but the narrative is straightforward. It would be an informative book for some one whose only knowledge of WW2 naval combat came from the television. I could recommend it to a high school student.
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An account of how technology helped the war at sea with detailed descriptions backed up by dramatic examples of technology in action.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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