For Britain, it was an imperial war, says Jackson (defense studies, King's College London), fought in imperial theaters by imperial forces dependent upon sea power and British capacity to move food, goods, munitions, and troops from one side of the world to the other. He seeks to place the British Empire at the center of understanding about the Second World War, and to provide an account of how the empire as a whole fought the war. Distributed in North America by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)