The face of naval battle : the human experience of modern war at sea / edited by John Reeve and David Stevens.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-350) and index.

Pt. 1. Setting the scene. Introduction: an anatomy of the face of naval battle / John Reeve -- Operational command at sea / Andrew Gordon -- part 2. Aspects of the face of naval battle. Western advisors and Chinese sailors in the 1894-95 Sin-Japanese War / Bruce Elleman -- The commander in crisis: Graf Spee and the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron in 1914 / Peter Overlack -- Sailors and seaborne soldiers in the defense of Australia, 1914-2001 / Russell Parkin -- The treatment of casualties from the Sydney-Emden action / Michael Dowsett -- The aircraft carrier: the experience of its conception, procurement and operation / David Hobbs -- The Second World War, Korea and Vietnam: a personal perspective on naval warfare / Guy Griffiths -- Aboard HMAS Hobart in the Java Sea area in 1942 / Gordon Johnson -- 'The gunner': J.E. Macdonnell and the face of naval battle / Peter Stanley -- US submarines at war: the recollection of motor machinist's mate Thomas R. Parks, USN / David Jones -- The strain of the bridge: the Second World War diaries of Commander A.F.C. Layard, DSO, DSC, RN / Michael Whitby -- The pursuit of realism: British anti-submarine tactics and training to counter the fast submarine, 1944-52 / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones -- Command at sea in war and peace: an Australian experience during the Gulf War and after / Lee Cordner -- part 3. The warrior and his foe. The faceless foe: perceptions of the enemy in modern naval battle / David Stevens -- Stress in war: the warrior's confrontation with the spectre of death / Colin Wastell -- The face of the future naval battle / Peter Jones.