Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War is a book written by Correlli Barnett. I read the book and gave a note outlining its contents.

Prologue 1918

Part I Britannia Lets the Trident Slip

1, Dreams of Peace and the Shrinking Navy 1918-1931

2, The tripleThreat and Belated Rearmament 1932-1939

3, “Winston is Back”

4, “A Very Hazardous Affair”: Norway, 1939-1940

5, A Churchillian Disaster: Norway, 1940

6, “Operation Dynamo”: The Dunkirk Evacuation

Part II Storm Force

7, The Wall of England

8, “Blue Water Strategy”: Mediterranean, 1940

9, “Grey Water Strategy”: The Atlantic, 1941

10, “The Bismark Must Be Sunk At All Costs”

11, Greek Prelude: The Battle of Matapan

12, Catastrophe in the Mediterranean, 1941

13, The Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse