The World's Great Battleships by Robert Jackson ISBN 13: 9781897884607

Thunder Bay Pr, 2000. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Brown Books, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. d/j has edgewear, contents are clean----------traces the history of the worlds greatest battleships.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Brown Books, 2000. Hardcover. As new/as new. Brown Books, c2000. 144pp., index, black and white, color photographs and illustrations. 4to. As new unread hardcover, as new d/j.

London: Brown, 2000. 144 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, profiles, cutaways. "Beginning with the age of sail and the Battle of Trafalgar, the book describes the development of the first primitive ironclads with traversing turrets, the battles of the American Civil War, and the heyday of the battleship in the decades before the outbreak of World War I. (It) shows how new technologies helped shape naval tactics and the advances in ship design during the nineteenth century, culminating in two new classes of ship, the dreadnought and the battlecruiser, that saw much action at the Battle of Jutland and the other naval encounters of World War I, and which are also discussed in depth here. By World War II the battleship, threatened by the submarine and difficult to protect from either underwater or aerial attack, had been usurped by the aircraft carrier from its position as prime naval weapon - as was dramatically demonstrated at Pearl… Read More