Adrian Stewart appears to be the first author to compile secondary sources to create a comprehensive British perspective on the Royal Navy’s war with the Kriegsmarine. There are many books that deal, with aspects of the conflict such as particular battles, or naval vessels, or naval personnel but Stewart has done readers a service by assembling a treatise on major subjects from the rise of Hitler’s Navy to its ultimate demise. His book is organised in the form of nine topical chapters of a dozen to twenty-five pages each plus two indices: “Index” and a valuable “Index of Ships”.Therefore, this compendium fills a need in historiographical studies. A better title for this book would be The British War with Hitler’s Navy.
