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(More customer reviews)Published in 1985, this book gives a very good overview of Naval Ships from 1900 - 1985. It covers all types of ships from Germany, Britian, France, Italy, Japan, the US, Russia and others. Each class of ship is reviewed - Battleships, Crusiers, Destroyers, Subs, even PT Boats.
With so much ground to cover, the authors can only hit the highlights, but that's ok. It's the famous ships we want to know about such as the Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, HMS Hood, USS Iowa, Japan's Yamoto to name but a few. Plenty of charts, data, line drawings give the reader good insight to each class of ship. The best feature of this book are the fold out color drawings giving top and side views in very close detail. Excellent for modelers.
I have used this book many times over the years for reference and learned something new every time I pick it up. The best coverage is of the WW2 ships, the modern ships were too new/classified to shed much light on. Having said that, I recommend this book for anyone with a general interst in naval warfare or naval history.
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