European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European Navies have operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Chronological in structure, the book is the ideal resource for students and scholars of naval and military history.

Portrait

Alan James is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, and a member of the Laughton Naval History Unit. He has written widely on France and its navy, including The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572-1661 (Boydell, 2004).
Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is the author of a number of essays and articles on naval warfare and a member of the Strategic Leadership project, a joint venture of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid) and the Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos (Madrid).
Malcolm Murfett is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has written a number of books on British foreign and defence policy in Asia and is the author of Naval Warfare 1919-1945 (Routledge, 2013).