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Book Review: The SS: A New History by Adrian Weale

This is the second volume on Anglo-American naval relations edited by Michael Simpson for the Navy Records Society. The first, published in 1991, covered the years 1917–19. The preface to this new volume indicates that the Society plans to publish three more volumes on this theme, covering the period 1939–45. The series as a whole will therefore be heavily weighted towards wartime relations between the two navies. This imbalance is probably unavoidable, but the space allotted to the interwar period seems rather meagre. The first volume in the series devoted over 600 pages to a period of just three years, while the six years of the Second World War are to be spread over three volumes. The entire interwar period, in contrast, is compressed here into just 295 pages. The volume provides a good selection of material to illuminate the main trends and developments in Anglo-American naval relations during this period, but it is inevitably less thorough than its predecessor. This is most evident in its coverage of the naval arms limitation process, an important and complex subject that can only be roughly sketched out in the space allotted to it here. But this is a minor complaint. The Navy Records Society has once again provided a valuable service by making these documents more accessible to scholars.