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British Battleships 1919 1945 (Paperback)
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British Battleships 1919 1945 (Paperback)
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This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon
after its first publication in 1993; it it remains one of the most
sought-after naval reference books. And with good reason. Offering
an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, the
author describes the evolution of the battleship classes through
all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design
features, armour, machinery and power plants and weaponry, he also
examines the performance of the ships in battle and analyses their
successes and failures; and as well as covering all the RNs
battleships and battlecruisers, he also looks in detail at the
aircraft carrier conversions of the WWI battlecruisers _Furious_,
_Glorious_ and _Courageous_. _British Battleships 1919-1939_ is a
masterpiece of research and the comprehensive text is accompanied
by tabular detail and certainly the finest collection of
photographs and line drawings ever offered in such a book. For this
new edition the author has added some 75 new photographs, many of
them having never appeared in print before, and the book has been
completely redesigned to fully exploit the superb photo collection.
A delight for the historian, enthusiast and ship modeller, it is a
volume that is already regarded as an essential reference work for
this most significant era in naval history and ship design. This
new softcover edition will be welcomed by a whole new generation of
readers. **''The most remarkable accomplishment of Burt's volumes
is their success in bringing together policy, technology, evolution
to face new challenges, physical changes, and operational history,
accompanied by extraordinary and extensive imagery. They
simultaneously meet many of the needs of historians of technology,
researchers in naval history, and modelmakers without compromising
the quality of the work.'** _Nautical Research Journal_
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