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  • Aircraft of the Royal Navy

    Since 1908

    de David Hobbs ...
    This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier design and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • British Aircraft Carriers

    Design, Development & Service Histories

    de David Hobbs ...
    " This superb book . . . will undoubtedly become the definitive volume on British Aircraft carriers and naval aviation . . . magnificent."—Marine NewsThis book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The British Pacific Fleet

    The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force

    de David Hobbs ...
    "Magnificent and important . . . should be on the shelves of anyone with a genuine interest in the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War." —Military History MonthlyIn August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Aircraft Carrier Victorious

    Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans

    de David Hobbs ...
    The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945

    de David Hobbs ...
    "A comprehensive study of the bittersweet post WWII history of British naval aviation . . . will become a standard reference for its subject."— FiretrenchIn 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy's history was centered on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Carrier Aviation

    The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft

    de David Hobbs ...
    A naval history of the development and use of aircraft carriers in military operations and in times of war.It has been more than a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning flying at sea made unique demands on men and machines. As warplanes grew larger, faster and heavier, air operations from ships were only possible at all ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Dawn of Carrier Strike

    The World of Lieutenant W P Lucy DSO RN

    de David Hobbs ...
    A biography of a British pilot set against the backdrop of the Royal Navy's fight to regain control of its aviation after the First World War.The establishment of the RAF came at a cost—and it was the Royal Navy that paid the price. In 1918 it had been pre-eminent in the technology and tactics of employing aircraft at sea, but once it lost control of its own air power, it struggled to make the RAF ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War

    de David Hobbs ...
    In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. By 1918 the RN was so far ahead of other navies that a US Navy observer sent to study the British use of aircraft at sea concluded that any discussion of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Warships of the Great War Era

    A History in Ship Models

    de David Hobbs ...
    The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945

    de David Hobbs ...
    A comprehensive history of the Royal Navy's naval aviation component's campaigns during World War II.For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy's ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. An integral part of RN, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organization, with only 406 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Taranto

    And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940–1945

    de David Hobbs ...
    "If you only read one book on the development of the Fleet Air Arm and Naval air warfare in the Mediterranean during World War 2 then this should be it." —Military Historical SocietyAfter the Italian declaration of war in June 1940, the Royal Navy found itself facing a larger and better-equipped Italian surface fleet, large Italian and German air forces equipped with modern aircraft and both ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The British Carrier Strike Fleet After 1945

    de David Hobbs ...
    As a follow-up to the highly regarded British Pacific Fleet, David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy—its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Despite ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD