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Bur the wo rk does no t sto p with vessels and their excavation . Sites of discovery, o rga nizatio ns engaged in resea rch, resto rati ons, recoveries, artifacts, methodology, laws governing sal vage and archaeo logy, and even contin ents fall under the edi to r's purv iew. Ir is in evitable in a wo rk of this scope that some scho lars will fi nd impo rtant sires and subj ects left our o r discover some factual errors, bur ove rall this boo k is a co mprehen sive and fascin ati ng window in to the field of underwater archaeo logy and maritime history as a who le. T he edi torial adviso ry boa rd includes internati o nally kn own names, and Delgado has led and participated in impo rtant archaeological explorations in fa r co rners of th e wo rld as well as in the Americas. H e is wel l qualified to compile such an all- inclusive reso urce. THOMAS C. G ILLM ER Annapo li s, Ma ryland The Royal Navy in World War II, by Ro bert Jackso n {Naval In stitu te Press, AnnapolisMD, 1997, 176pp, illus, appen, index, ISBN 1-5575 0-7 12-0; $34.95 hc) In this bri ef survey of the Royal Navy in the second wo rld war, Robert Jackson, for mer RAF pil ot an d navigator, prov ides a ch ro nological acco unt of the majo r actio ns throughout thi s six-year co nflict. H e sets the stage with a n intro d uc tio n to the prewar situatio n as it affected the Royal Navythe increase in size of the Navy in the 193 0s, ships being too old fo r modern conflict, the W as hingto n and Lo ndo n treaties which redu ced the strength of the Navy, and the d eplo rable state of the Fleer Air Arm, whi ch fl ew obsolescent aircraft th ro ughout th e earl y stages of the wa r. The o nly bright sid e to th is dismal picture, acco rding to Jackso n, was the quali ry of the manpower of th e N avy. T he reade r is given b ri ef overviews of the major evenrs in the naval war. Actio ns such as Dunkirk, th e M editerranean, the North Adan tic, the battle fo r th e co nvoys, U ltra, Malta, the Arctic and, las tly, a very b rief descriptio n of th e Navy in th e Pacific in 1945, are prov ided with a ro ll call of ships participating in each battle. T he photographs are, by the author's ow n admissio n, biased towards naval aviation. T he read ier co mes away fro m this study with th e feellin g that this is lirde more than an outline oo f th e Royal N avy during the wo rldwide cco nflicr. Little m entio n is made
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