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Nyfd (Hardcover)
Daniel Knowles
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R981
Discovery Miles 9 810
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Following the First World War the major naval powers entered into
an agreement restricting the construction of capital ships and
limiting the numbers that signatories were allowed to maintain, so
numerous ships were scrapped or disposed of and the majority of
planned vessel were either cancelled whilst being built or never
laid down. By the late 1920s the Royal Navy’s battle force
comprised of the two Nelson-class ships, the battlecruisers
‘Hood’, ‘Renown’ and ‘Repulse’, and ‘Revenge’ and
Queen Elizabeth-class ships, all designed before the First World
War. In 1928 the Royal Navy began planning a new class of
battleships which was put on hold with the signing of the Treaty of
London. In 1935, realising its battle fleet was becoming dated as
other nations laid down new classes of battleships, the Royal Navy
recommenced planning capital ships within treaty limitations. The
result was the King George V-class battleships. Regarded by some as
the worst new-generation battleships in the Second World War the
King George V-class were Britain’s most modern battleships during
the conflict and saw action in some of the most famous engagements
from the sinking of the ‘Bismarck’ in 1941 to the surrender of
Japan in 1945. This book charts the story of the King George
V-class from its conception and design through to the operational
history of the ships in the class.
For over twenty years the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood' toured the world
as the most iconic warship in the Royal Navy. Unmatched in her
beauty and charisma, 'Hood' is one of history's greatest warships.
During the twilight years of the British Empire the 'Hood 'toured
the world showing the flag as a symbol of British power. As the
Royal Navy's show-ship, 'Hood' came to command a special place in
the hearts and minds of the British public. Such was the regard for
HMS 'Hood' that her destruction in the Denmark Strait on the
morning of 24 May 1941 by the German battleship 'Bismarck' created
dismay across the world. Within minutes of entering battle 'the
Mighty Hood' as she was affectionately known, was destroyed by a
catastrophic explosion which had echoes of Jutland a quarter of a
century earlier. Out of a crew of a crew of 1,418, only 3 survived.
The sinking of HMS 'Hood' was the single largest disaster ever
sustained by the Royal Navy. This book charts the life and death of
this legendary battlecruiser in both peace and war from her early
origins, through the interwar years, to her destruction.
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Nyfd (Paperback)
Daniel Knowles
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R657
Discovery Miles 6 570
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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