Donald Macintyre (1) (1904–1981)

There are many, many books about the British Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, but just a handful from the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War. This book is much more than just about Admiral Rodney. There is a lot of politics, backstabbing and downright disobeying orders. It is mostly interesting, but there are pages and pages of Rodney complaining about a fellow officer or a fellow officer about Rodney which makes it a chore to read.

A survey of these ships in their WWII form. MacIntyre had been a writer in the field of the royal Navy of WWII, in which he served. This chance to do a survey and get the royalties led to a useful, but not particularly insightful production.

This book tells the history of the aircraft carrier in World War II. It's main focus is the Pacific Theatre, though it has chapters on British Aircraft carriers also.
The aircraft carrier, in 1939 mistrusted not only by the more conservative type of naval officer - the majority perhaps of the senior ranks - but by those many fanatics of air power who believed that the shore based aeroplane had made all navies redundant, became, in the course of the war, the dominating factor in naval operations.

the attack by the Japanese fleet against the US pacific naval forces…
Ballantine's illustrated History of World War II, battle book No. 11. The Battle for Leyte Gulf; a desperate gamble by Imperial Japan when she risked the remnants of her Fleet in an all-out effort to retain her conquests and safeguard her supply routes against the might American Pacific forces. Here is the background story to this great sea battle, which saw the suicidal Kamikaze units in use for the first time.