Vincent P. O'Hara is a naval historian and the author of The German Fleet at War (2004), The U.S. Navy Against the Axis (2007), The Struggle for the Middle Sea (2009), Dark Navy (co-author 2009), On Seas Contested (editor, 2010), In Passage Perilous (2012), To Crown the Waves (editor 2013), Black Phoenix (co-author 2013) and Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (2015). Naval Institute Press awarded O'Hara 2015 Author of the Year. His work has also appeared in periodicals and annuals including Naval War College Review, Warship, MHQ, World War II Magazine, World War II Quarterly, Seaforth Naval Review, American in WWII, WWII History, and Storia Militare. O'Hara holds a history degree from the University of California, Berkeley.