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Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : HarperResource
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century written by Bernard Ireland and published by HarperResource. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the greatest battleships from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.
Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0004720652
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Jane's War at Sea 1897-1997 written by Bernard Ireland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of fighting ships and major players in world naval operations, from the navies of Great Britain in the late 1800s to the post Cold War vessels used in the Gulf War.
Author : John Evelyn Moore
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I written by John Evelyn Moore and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduced from the wartime editions of Jane's All the World's Ships.
Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0004721438
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Jane's Naval History of WWII written by Bernard Ireland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a naval historian, reveals the critical elements that determined the war at sea.
Author : Francis Edwin McMurtrie
Publisher : Gramercy Books
ISBN 13 : 9780517679630
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II written by Francis Edwin McMurtrie and published by Gramercy Books. This book was released on 1946 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the ships used by the British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and American navies during World War II
Author : John Fidler
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473871484
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Battleships of the World written by John Fidler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battleships of the worlds navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and mounted guns on the broadside, firing solid shot.In the next half century, steel, steam and shells had wrought a transformation and by 1906, Dreadnought had ushered in a revolution in naval architecture. The naval race between Britain and Germany that followed, led to the clash of the navies at Jutland in 1916. Though this was indecisive, the German navy never again challenged the Grand Fleet of Britain during the war, and eventually the crews refused to put to sea again.Disarmament on a massive scale followed, but the battleship was still regarded as the arbiter of sea-power in the years between the wars. However, the advocates of air power were looking to the future, and when in 1940 biplane Swordfish torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm sank three Italian battleships at their moorings in Taranto, the Japanese sensed their opportunity. Their attack on the American Pacific fleet base at Pearl Harbor sank eight battleships but the American carriers were at sea, and escaped destruction. Given the distances involved, the Pacific war was necessarily a carrier war, and in the major actions of the Coral Sea, Midway, Leyte Gulf and the Philippine Sea, all the fighting was done by aircraft, with battleships reduced to a supporting role.Soon after the war ended, most were sent for scrap, and a naval tradition had come to an end.
Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007111527
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Jane's Naval Airpower written by Bernard Ireland and published by Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is an illustrated guide to the development of the aircraft as an instrument of naval power from its inception in the early 20th century to the modern day. Naval warfare was transformed by airpower, but it was a hit and miss process. The Royal Navy pioneered the use of aircraft carriers during World War I, but famously lost Prince of Wales and Repulse to land based Japanese bombers in 1941. From the early days of airships and bi-planes, the carrier planes of the Pacific to the very latest in carrier based strike aircraft, and anti-submarine helicopters, Bernard Ireland reveals how airpower has revolutionized naval warfare.
Author : Tony Gibbons
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517378106
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships written by Tony Gibbons and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the 324 classes of battleships and battlecruisers. Includes technical and performance data.
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497625742
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Mighty Hood written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. When it was launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, “The Mighty Hood” was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for all the Hood’s might, it had one fatal flaw: armor had been sacrificed for speed. In 1941, the Hood confronted the legendary German warship Bismarck. A salvo from the enemy penetrated the Hood’s ammunition magazine, destroying the British ship and killing all but three of its crew. The brutal defeat marked the end of the Royal Navy’s dominance. But it also inspired Winston Churchill’s vow to sink the Bismarck—a vow that in time was fulfilled. Through oral history and documentary research, Ernle Bradford chronicles the Hood’s career from design to demise, with colorful insight into life aboard the ship as well as its broader historical significance.
Author : Tim Bryars
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620250X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps written by Tim Bryars and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed, drawn, or otherwise constructed during the twentieth century and recount through them a narrative of the century’s key events and developments. As Bryars and Harper reveal, maps make ideal narrators, and the maps in this book tell the story of the 1900s—which saw two world wars, the Great Depression, the Swinging Sixties, the Cold War, feminism, leisure, and the Internet. Several of the maps have already gained recognition for their historical significance—for example, Harry Beck’s iconic London Underground map—but the majority of maps on these pages have rarely, if ever, been seen in print since they first appeared. There are maps that were printed on handkerchiefs and on the endpapers of books; maps that were used in advertising or propaganda; maps that were strictly official and those that were entirely commercial; maps that were printed by the thousand, and highly specialist maps issued in editions of just a few dozen; maps that were envisaged as permanent keepsakes of major events, and maps that were relevant for a matter of hours or days. As much a pleasure to view as it is to read, A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps celebrates the visual variety of twentieth century maps and the hilarious, shocking, or poignant narratives of the individuals and institutions caught up in their production and use.
Author : Ian Sturton
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591141327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Conway's Battleships written by Ian Sturton and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fully updated with an extended introduction by Ian Sturton and an outstanding selection of images, Conway's Battleships is a comprehensive study of the world's capital ships from the emergence of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. In their day, these mighty ships represented a country's military pride. They served with distinction in two World Wars and threatened and impressed in equal measure. Superseded by the aircraft carrier and finally rendered obsolete in the missile age, a few of these ships, nevertheless, continued in service to the end of the twentieth century, with two of the US Iowa class present at the Gulf War in 1990-91." "Organized by nation, type and class, each entry describes the sister-ships of the class in detail, with specification tables, diagrams of ships in profile and career histories. A wealth of visual information can be gained from browsing through the many photographs and artworks, showing hull and deck details, ships in port, underway and in action. Fully international in its scope and extensive in its coverage, this is an essential addition to the library of any naval historian or warship enthusiast."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : R.A. Burt
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612519555
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book British Battleships of World War One written by R.A. Burt and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Institute for National Strategic Studies
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160897634
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Navy written by Institute for National Strategic Studies and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)
Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author : Erminio Bagnasco
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152679988X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Italian Battleships written by Erminio Bagnasco and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of their previous book on the battleships of the Littorio class, the authors set new standards for the detailed coverage and sophisticated analysis of Italian warship design. Inspired by its success, both critically and commercially, the authors were inspired to follow up with a similar study of the earlier Italian battleships that were built in the First World War but survived to fight in the Second. Given the level of new research required, this has taken a decade to achieve but the result is a similarly comprehensive coverage. Originally comprising five ships in two related classes, they entered service at the beginning of the Great War. As designed, they were powerful examples of the second generation of dreadnoughts, with a combination of twin and triple turrets producing a unique main armament of thirteen 12-inch guns. One ship, Leonardo da Vinci, was sunk by an internal explosion at Taranto in 1916, and although the hull was raised post-war, the plan to rebuild the ship was abandoned as it was not deemed cost-effective. However, the remaining four ships were to undergo one of the most radical reconstructions of any battleship class during the 1930s, emerging with an entirely new profile, more powerful machinery and all the characteristics of a modern fast battleship. In this form they became an important element in the Italian fleet that opposed the British after 1940\. This book covers all the technical details of the ships, both as built and as rebuilt, but also provides an extended history of their active service, including battle plans and track charts. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, ship and armament plans, detail drawings and colour camouflage schemes, the book is a fitting companion to The Littorio Class.
Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476767297
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Tuxedo Park written by Jennet Conant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis—changing the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others—at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis’ papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis’ obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.
Author : William Brinkley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698156676
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Last Ship written by William Brinkley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?
