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Warships After Washington
John Jordan
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Description for Warships After Washington
Paperback. The first dedicated study of the treaty process that dominated inter-war navies. A readable summary of the political, economic and strategic background with detailed analysis of warship design in all major navies. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: HBTM; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 768.
The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade, but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers. This much is broadly understood by anyone with an interest in warships, but both the wider context of the treaty and the ... Read more
The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade, but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers. This much is broadly understood by anyone with an interest in warships, but both the wider context of the treaty and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
767g
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473852730
SKU
V9781473852730
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About John Jordan
JOHN JORDAN, the editor of the prestigious Warship annual, is the author of a number of naval books, the most recent being the highly acclaimed French Battleships 1922-1956 (Seaforth 2009) which he co-wrote with Robert Dumas, and French Cruisers (Seaforth 2013) .
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