A new book on ‘Naval Minewarfare: Politics to Practicalities’ has been published by CCW former Visiting Research Fellow, Captain Chris O’Flaherty Royal Navy. Selected by the journal ‘Naval Review’ as their Book of the Quarter for Summer 2020, this detailed and comprehensive work examines the recent history of naval mining and naval mine countermeasures, focussed on the 24 naval mining events since World War II. Using evidence from these events since 1945, in which over 18,400 mines were laid sinking or seriously damaging over 100 ships (including 44 warships), it draws out the strategic and operational considerations affecting the success or failure of modern naval mining events.