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  • Japanese Battleships, 1897-1945

    A Photographic Archive

    by R.A. Burt ...
    Rare images of the Imperial Japanese Navy's fleet before it was almost completely destroyed in World War II.This photographic archive contains some 125 stunning images of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, many unfamiliar, some very rare. They constitute an archive that is pretty much without equal in publications in the West. The period covered is from the launch of Japan's first real ... Read more

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  • The Last British Battleship

    HMS Vanguard, 1946–1960

    by R. A. Burt ...
    " Lots of information on the ship's design, weapons, armor, refits, and service career, along with the Royal Cruise of 1947." — Model Ship WorldThe ninth HMS Vanguard, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honors from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain's battleships and was commissioned in 1946. Her design evolved from the King George V class and ... Read more

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  • British Battleships 1919-1945

    by R.A. Burt ...
    The classic reference on the Royal Navy's battleships and battlecruisers, now expanded with dozens of additional photos .Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, this naval history reference describes the evolution of the British battleship classes through all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design features, armor, machinery and power plants ... Read more

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  • British Battleships, 1889–1904

    by R.A. Burt ...
    A comprehensive look at Royal Navy warships in the pre-dreadnought era, with extensive photos and illustrations.The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about the Royal Navy's ability to fight a modern war at sea resulted in the Naval Defense Act of 1889 and a vast program of warship construction. Over the next twenty years a fleet of 52 battleships was built, construction finally ... Read more

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  • British Battleships of World War One

    New Revised Edition

    by R.A. Burt ...
    The classic reference on the technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era.A century ago at Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight, and the first battle for the Falklands, mighty squadrons of these great armored ships fought their German counterparts for command of the seas. Beginning with Dreadnought, this book continues to the end of the First World ... Read more

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  • Japanese Battleships, 1897-1945

    A Photographic Archive

    by R.A. Burt ...
    This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The remarkable images, some very rare, constitute an archive that is almost without equal in the West. The book begins with the launch of Japan's first contemporary battleship, Yashima, and concludes with the final destruction of the fleet in the Pacific in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • British Battleships, 1889-1904

    New Revised Edition

    by R.A. Burt ...
    This volume completes the reissue of R. A. Burt’s magnificent three-volume history of British battleships, and it covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. In this new volume, the author presents full details of design and construction, armament, protection, machinery and performance, all backed up with accurate data tables listing design ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • British Battleships of World War One

    by R.A. Burt ...
    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' ... Read more

    $40.29 USD

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  • British Submarines in Two World Wars

    by Norman Friedman ...
    An "indispensable" guide to the Royal Navy's submarines through 1945, with numerous photos and original plans ( The Naval Review).The Royal Navy didn't invent the submarine—but in 1914, Britain had the largest submarine fleet in the world, and at the end of World War I it had some of the largest and most unusual of all submarines—whose origins and designs are all detailed in this book. During the ... Read more

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  • Naval Firepower

    Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

    by Norman Friedman ...
    An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America's leading naval analyst.For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a "firing solution" ... Read more

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  • German Battlecruisers of World War One

    Their Design, Construction and Operations

    by Gary Staff ...
    The most comprehensive English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's WWI battlecruisers, fully illustrated with drawings, diagrams and photographs.In this in-depth study, naval historian and author of Battle on the Seven Seas Gary Staff presents a full analysis of Imperial Germany's battlecruisers. Known as Panzerkreuzer, the eight ships of this class were involved in several early North ... Read more

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  • British Cruisers of the Victorian Era

    by Norman Friedman, A D Baker ...
    "This magnificent book reinforces Norman Friedman's unparalleled reputation as a peerless author of maritime topics."— Australian Naval InstituteGradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define—but for the sake of this book, historian Norman Friedman takes as a starting point Iris and Mercury of 1875. They were the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus