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A reading route into the Battle of the Java Sea

A viewer asks for a book that gives a useful battle-level account of the Java Sea campaign.

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Question

Is there a good book explaining the Battle of the Java Sea?

Short answer

Harry Bennett's Great Naval Battles of World War Two is recommended as a useful account.

Notes

Harry Bennett's Great Naval Battles of World War Two is recommended as a useful starting point. The book's treatment of the Battle of the Java Sea provides a published operational account beyond the short livestream answer. Bennett is a university historian. The wider collection covers other Second World War naval battles as well.