Collins/Jane's Warships of World War II
Author | : Bernard Ireland |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Warships. |
ISBN | : 9780004708720 |
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Author | : Bernard Ireland |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Warships. |
ISBN | : 9780004708720 |
Author | : John Batchelor |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486451631 |
This fleet of 28 accurately detailed ships includes the ill-fated PT-109, commanded by a young John F. Kennedy, a German U-boat, and the USS Missouri, the battleship on which the Japanese surrendered.
Author | : Richard Worth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 778 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781608882250 |
Caught up in global chaos, the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning. Each country found itself adapting its fleet compositions, ship designs, personnel training, and weaponry to ever-changing circumstances and ever-fluctuating resources-with varying degrees of success.An understanding of the successes and failures requires an uncompromising critique of the tools of war. Fleets of World War II pins down the warships' actual qualities, a nation-by-nation survey covering everything from the mightiest battlewagons to modest patrol craft.After fifteen years as a staple of naval research, Fleets of World War II now appears in this updated edition with expanded text and more than 150 photographs.Praise for the first edition: "With a substantial library of good books on the fighting ships of the last century and a half, I am glad to add Richard Worth's Fleets of World War II to my collection." -Frank Uhlig, Jr., U. S. Naval War College"This one book contains a perfect distillation of facts, theory and application on almost any ship that saw use in World War II." -Wargamer.com"Fleets of World War II probably represents the best single-volume comprehensive treatment of World War II warships available today." -William J. Jurens, Warship Internationa
Author | : David Hubert Grover |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert O. Dulin |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Part of a three-volume set on the world's battleships, this book provides a comprehensive history of all U.S. Navy battleships and battlecruisers built, designed, or projected built since the early 1930s. It covers their design and construction, operational careers, and eventual disposition. Complete plans are presented for many classes as well as extensive technical data covering their characteristics and performance, information that is sometimes hard to find and often.
Author | : Mark Stille |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472848039 |
A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific Theatre, the US was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with the impressive Imperial Japanese Navy, fighting a series of major battles in the Coral Sea, at Midway, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa in the struggle for supremacy over Japan. Having avoided the decisive defeat sought by the IJN, the US increased industrial production and by the end of the war, the US Navy was larger than any other in the world. Meanwhile in the west, the US Navy operated on a second front, supporting landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, and in 1944 played a significant part in the D-Day landings, the largest and most complex amphibious operation of all time. Written by an acknowledged expert and incorporating extensive illustrations including photographs, maps and colour artwork, this book offers a detailed look at the strategy, operations and vessels of the US Navy in World War II.
Author | : Paul H. Silverstone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 041597898X |
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : M. J. Whitley |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Battleships |
ISBN | : 9780304359578 |
By 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.
Author | : Gerhard Koop |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473850096 |
“An immensely interesting look” at the Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnbergships “from drawing board to destiny” (War History Online). The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs. These have been out of print for ten years or more and are now much sought after by enthusiasts and collectors, so this new modestly priced reprint of the series will be widely welcomed. This volume is devoted to the six ships from Emden to Nürnberg that were built between the wars. They were primarily intended for commerce-raiding, but the war gave them few opportunities for such employment, although they did provide useful support for key naval operations in the Baltic and North Sea. Two were lost in the 1940 Norway campaign, but the remainder survived for most of the conflict. “A ship-by-ship history of the cruisers. The text is supported by an excellent collection of plans and photographs. Overall this is a very impressive history of a fairly unimpressive set of warships.”—HistoryOfWar.org
Author | : Peter Hore |
Publisher | : Southwater Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781844763894 |
This 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