Buy this book on-line WILLMOTT,H.P: : BATTLESHIPLONDON.CASSELL,2002. ISBN 030435810X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£30.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,blue/grey+
b/w photographic illustrated upper panel with blue/grey+
black lettering to same and spine/backstrip,critics' reviews for author's other books/titles to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Most of the creasing occurs to the top edges of the dw/dj,with miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top edges bright and clean,
fore-edges similar but with some minimal grubbing/
thumbmarks;contents bright,tight,crisp and near pristine
- no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread,or at least very carefully read,if at all.Bright,
crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white eps.8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-352pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters,2 b/w maps (includes 1 double-page) of naval actions,16pp contemporary b/w battleships photographs and double-page b/w silhouette diagrams of other battleships,
in one block,all between pp160/1,appendices(17),notes,a selected biblio,an index and acknowledgements at rear.
Plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages and a contents list/table.
For the first two decades of the 20thC,the battleship ruled the high seas.Britain and Germany, America and Japan, France, Itly, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Spain and Turkey, and in South America Argentina, Brazil and Chile all had invested heavily in the power and prestige which these behemoths could command.
But long before the end of the Second World War the battleship was dead in the water - either literally,most often sunk by carrier-borne aircraft,or metaphorically,
deprived of a raison d'etre in the war at sea.It was an extraordinary and largely unexpected reversal of fortunes.
H. P. Willmott traces the story of the battleship from start to finish.
He points out the fallacies underlying the Anglo-German naval race in the years before the First World War.He takes issue with the orthodox view of Jutland and claims it as a great British victory.He reassesses the interwar Washington and London treaties and looks closely at the vessels which resulted from their strictures.He contrasts the plans navies made for the battlefleets,and gives a comprehensive account of the triumphs and disasters that attended the deployment of capital ships in the Second Wolrd War.
'Battleship' is an elegy for a magnificent type of warship.It is also a fascinating and closely-argued,often controversial analysis of how these ships came to be,and why ultimately they failed.
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