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The World of the Battleship: The Design and Careers of Capital Ships of the World's Navies 1900-1950
Bruce Taylor
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Description for The World of the Battleship: The Design and Careers of Capital Ships of the World's Navies 1900-1950
Hardcover. A highly original work on the lives & careers of these perennially popular ships. Num Pages: 224 pages, 200 b'w photos and line drawings. BIC Classification: JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 240. .
This new volume is intended to present a genuinely global vision of the development of world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by experts from around the world, the design, building and career of a significant battleship from each of the world's navies is explored in such a way as to illuminate not just the ships but also the communities of officers and men that served in them and, more broadly, the societies and nations that built them. While ships from the Royal Navy, the US Navy, the Kriegsmarine, the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Marine Nationale and the Regia Navale ... Read more
This new volume is intended to present a genuinely global vision of the development of world's battleships. In a collection of chapters by experts from around the world, the design, building and career of a significant battleship from each of the world's navies is explored in such a way as to illuminate not just the ships but also the communities of officers and men that served in them and, more broadly, the societies and nations that built them. While ships from the Royal Navy, the US Navy, the Kriegsmarine, the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Marine Nationale and the Regia Navale ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seaforth Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848321786
SKU
V9781848321786
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Bruce Taylor
BRUCE TAYLOR was educated at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford where he received a doctorate in Modern History in 1996. The Battlecruiser HMS Hood, was published in 2005 and is regarded as the ultimate reference work on the ship and a landmark in naval history. U-Boat Attack Logs, another major reference work, was published in 2011.
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