Battleship at War
Author: Ivan Musicant
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the American battleship commissioned in 1941 and its career during World War II.
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British Battleships of World War One
Author: R.A. Burt
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1612519555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of a classic work on British battleships is the most sought after book on the subject. Containing many new photographs from the author's exhaustive collection this superb reference book presents the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. Beginning with Dreadnought, all of the fifty dreadnoughts, 'super-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers that served the Royal Navy during this era are described and superbly illustrated with photographs and line drawings.
The Battleship Book
Author: Robert M. Farley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1479405574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato, here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship. Separate essays and sidebars look at events and lore that greatly affected battleships.
Battleship Sailor
Author: Theodore C. Mason
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-01-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1612511562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
An American Battleship at Peace and War
Author: Jonathan G. Utley
Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an intimate history of The Big T from its launching in 1920 as the world's most powerful fighting ship through her survival at Pearl Harbor and service in WWII.
Battleships of World War II
Author: Peter Hore
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844763894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative reference book charts the development and history of the battleship from the end of World War I, through World War II and up to the present day. This period saw a dramatic change in the role of the battleship as a result of the vastly
USS Missouri at War
Author: Kit Bonner
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2008-10-15
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1616732652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of the wartime career of the USS Missouri from World War II to the Gulf War. On September 2, 1945, surrender ceremonies officially ending World War II were broadcast worldwide from the deck of the USS Missouri. The ceremony also marked the end of one of the most eventful years for any vessel in the history of warfare. USS Missouri at War chronicles the career of this mighty warship, the last battleship built by the United States. Veteran naval historian Kit Bonner describes “Mighty Mo’s” powerful strikes against Japan, its support of the Iwo Jima landings and bombardment of Okinawa, and its decisive role in the destruction of key Japanese industrial targets. That war was over, but the Missouri was not done yet; and Bonner follows her service in the Korean War, her modernization and reactivation for the 1991 Gulf War, and her final decommissioning in 1992, with eleven battle stars to her credit. For its authoritative and close-up look at the life and work of a world-class battleship, and for its insight into the history of twentieth-century naval warfare, this strikingly illustrated book is one that no naval enthusiast or military history buff will want to be without.
Battleships
Author: William H. Garzke
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9780710604040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBattleships of World War Two
Author: M. J. Whitley
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780304359578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the acclaimed author of Destroyers of World War Two, this book is a fully illustrated and highly detailed overview of the capital ships that saw action in the last war. Compiled with the assistance of naval authorities and experts from around the world, it includes not only detailed descriptions of the ships' armament and armour, full technical specifications, date of construction, service and engagement record, but also accounts of the ultimate fate of the ships.
US Navy Battleships 1886–98
Author: Brian Lane Herder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1472835042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships. The first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which incorporated lessons from the previous ships. These initial ships set the enduring US battleship standard of being heavily armed and armoured at the expense of speed. This fully illustrated study examines these first six US battleships, a story of political compromises, clean sheet designs, operational experience, and experimental improvements. These ships directly inspired the creation of an embryonic American military-industrial complex, enabled a permanent outward-looking shift in American foreign policy and laid the foundations of the modern US Navy.
