Buy this book on-line WILMOTT,H. P: : BATTLESHIPLONDON.CASSELL,2002. ISBN 030435810X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn per se,but what looks like an black ink entwined initials (L + W) beneath a cartoon caricature of a camel stamp to title page and no price-clip (£30.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges bright and clean,fore- edges lightly and slightly marked/grubbed but still bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8 -352pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters, appendices (17),16pp historical, contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block, between pp160/1,2 b/w maps,notes,selected biblio,an index and acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.
For the first two decades of the twentieth century,the battleship ruled the high seas.Britain and Germany,America and Japan,France,Italy,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 reversal of fortunes.
H. P. Wilmott traces the history 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 reassesses the iterwar Washington and London treaties amd looks closely at the vessels which resulted from their strictures.He contrasts the plans navies made for their battlefleets,and gives a comprehensive account of the triumphs and disasters that attended the deployment of capital ships in the Second World 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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