The strongest recommendations are Roskill's HMS Warspite, The Secret Capture, The Navy at War, and especially The Strategy of Sea Power. The last is a useful path into modern naval doctrine rather than only a narrative history. Churchill and the Admirals and Roskill's biography of David Beatty receive a more guarded assessment. Readers should build wider background first so they can recognize the interpretive bias in those later works.
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Stephen Roskill's strongest sea-power histories
Roskill's operational histories and The Strategy of Sea Power are recommended, while his later works on Churchill and Beatty require wider context.