Product Description
The latest volume of this highly acclaimed annual maintains the well established impressive standards of scholarship, research, news and reviews from the field of warship history. This edition includes articles on the US Navy's Lexington class battle cruiser design; extensive research into the grounding and destruction of HMS Effingham in 1940; the origins of Dupuy de Lome, the world's first armoured cruiser; the battle for Casablanca between the US Navy and French forces in November 1942; and the impact of the capsizing of the torpedo-boat Tomozuru on design parameters and subsequent construction in the Imperial Japanese Navy; along with the second in a series of articles on modern warships by Conrad Waters, which looks at the French BPSs of the Mistral class and Juan Carlos I, the new LHD being built by Navantia for the Spanish navy.
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| Imprint | Conway |
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| ISBN | 9781844861330 |
| Publication Date | 6 Feb 2011 |
| Format | Hardback |
| Dimensions | 270 x 200 mm (h x w) |
| Page Extent | 208 pages |
| Illustrations | 50 mono and 50 line drawings |
| View Inside Pages | Not Yet Available |
| Author | John Jordan, Stephen Dent |
| About the Author | John Jordan is a former language teacher. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and more recently co-authored French Battleships 1922-56 (Seaforth, 2009) with Robert Dumas. He has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004. Stephen Dent is the assistant editor of Conway's Warship annual. He also edited The War At Sea in Photographs, 1939-1945 (Conway, 2008). |
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