Hostages of Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse Review

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(More customer reviews)I enjoyed reading about events leading up to the beginning of WWII and specifically about the loss of these two British warships. It's amazing how the Western powers so underestimated the Japanese military capability and, critically, the quality of their pilots and planes. A bit dry, but it would be hard not to be given the details necessary to provide critical background to these events.

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When the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese bombers on 10 December 1941, Winston Churchill is on record as having said 'In all the war I never received a more direct shock'. Their loss led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the end of British supremacy in the Far East until 1945. Their story is an endlessly fascinating one, a story of momentous and difficult decisions, great and heroic men, powerful and graceful ships, cruel twists of fate, and some maddening questions just begging to be answered.

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Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a serious student of World War Two and a Gerald Astor fan, however repeated errors in aircraft designations...(SPD instead of SBD) caused me to hesitate to finish this work. There is nothing more annoying than having to mentally correct poor editing.
The books content is very good and worth reading. I just would like to stress that whomever edits the final draft need to be sure that it is properly done.

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Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an update of Conway's formerly 2-volumes (Western and Warsaw Pact navies), first published in 1982. This is now 1 volume, large format size of the other Conway's, 1860-1946. It is an impressive book, covering the cold-war era, describing in minor detail, the survivors of WWII, and in more detail, new construction from 1947. It's the only book of its type because it covers all types of vessels and all navies; each entry has a brief description (sometimes insightful) but usually just a recitation of public info (because very few of these vessels saw combat). They are accompanied by a medium-size photograph, and often a line drawing (but the drawings are of medium quality, and plainly "hand drawn"). The book is not a thorough treatment of any particular ship or type of vessel; for that, you will have to use other books such as Norman Friedman's (now dated) series on US Navy battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines, etc. It lacks the descriptive nature of H. Lenton's books on the British WWII navy, or the graphic intensity of the dedicated battleship, cruiser, etc. books. Nevertheless, no other book is as comprehensive as this one, and remains the seminal work on naval vessels in the cold war era; it's richly illustated and has sufficient text.

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British Warships of the Second World War (Blueprint Series (Annapolis, MD.)) Review

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(More customer reviews)John Roberts authored several outstanding books, including "Battlecruisers" by Conway's. Although prominently labeled as a "blueprint" book, I was surprised to discover the photos of blueprints are unreadable. I mistakenly expected line drawings (which are outstanding in his Battlecruiser book); there are none here. Even the 2-page wide blueprints are unreadable; details & labels couldn't be read. The primary purpose of this book appears to be a compilation of blueprints, which are themselves, valuable & historical documents. In this respect, the is similar to an art book -- it replicates original source that is available only in a museum. The text doesn't contain new material, but it is valuable in that it more detailed than "survey" type books but less exhaustive than the in-depth "class" books such as Garzke's battleship series and Friedman's US Navy class ships series. The book covers major warship types that served during WWII, beginning with Rodney/Nelson class, with some reference to Queen Elizabeth class modernizations. I found the text most valuable in describing the design objectives & limitations rather than a description without context (example: HMS Rodney & Nelson are described within the Washington Treaty 35,0000 ton limitation). As I write this without the book in front of me, I don't recall seeing any photographs (besides photos of blueprints), which would be a major disappointment. It's difficult to pass up a book by such an expert as John Roberts, but this may be a candidate. I think the objective of the book is to display blueprint documents that readers could only see if they visited or had access to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK. Had Roberts added a line drawing to each class (and an accompanying photo), I would recommend this book rather than give a marginal approval.

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Although World War II warships have been the subject of many books, it is extremely difficult to find reproductions of the plans from which the ships were built, converted, or refitted. This large-format volume showcases a representative sampling of British ship plans from the archives of the National Maritime Museum collection at Greenwich, England. The author includes both pre-war and wartime plans of the principle classes--from aircraft carriers and battleships down to corvettes and landing craft. Each plan is reproduced at a size that ensures the relevant details of the vessel are visible. The largest vessels are represented over multiple pages that illuminate the complexity of the ships and their wartime modifications. For technical historians and ship modelers, this book is a unique primary source. For those with a general interest in ships, it is an attractive visual survey.

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The First Destroyers (Chatham Shipshape Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The first thing to point out about this work is how narrow the focus is. The transition from torpedo "boat" to the destroyer class of warship in the Royal Navy is the subject. References to development outside England are only to contextualize the main subject. What is remarkable about this book is the way extensive quotations from contemporary documents and reproduction of original plans and drawings take one into the period. After a read of this book, I found myself in the late Victorian - Edwardian period. Well, not actually... but the thought and speech patterns did tend to stick with me a bit.
Very clear from the text is the relatively unsatisfactory nature of these transistional weapons systems. They sound like ghastly seaboats, imposing stresses on personnel that would violate the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners. No doubt the sailors and their officers were tough and hardened in a way we do not imagine men of our era to be but the effects of repetitive motions, extreme temperatures, and limited rest on the physical and mental combat effectiveness of human beings are an objective reality. In addition, the limited range and primitive fire control systems meant that to deliver any ordnance against an enemy, suicidally short ranges to heavily armed warships would result. It is a good thing for the crews of these craft that no war actually took place while they were in first line service.
Of further interest is the insight into procurement and development contracts between the Royal Navy and private yards of the era, shown by the extensive documentary quotations referred to above. The issues remain the same now as then and only the people have changed, not the positions their roles and responsibilities put them in.
In summary this is probably not a book for the general browser into naval history but for someone with a specific research topic or need in mind.

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American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919-1941 Review

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(More customer reviews)There are many good insights and much worthwhile information here. But there is no apparent organization of ideas, either among the chapters, within a chapter, within a page or sometimes within a paragraph. Ideas and facts are presented, and repeated later, as if this were several slightly different articles on the same subject laid end-to-end. We are told about the movie "Helldivers" at least twice, for instance, and both times it is introduced as if new; and many times it is repeated that the Royal Navy did not have an institutional way of resolving technical aviation issues, while the USN had an interaction among BuAer, the War College and Fleet exercises. This repetition (in a book of only 200 pages) masks the fact that there is not really a book's worth of information here, and that and the poor organization mean that many important questions just aren't brought up (like, just how were the personnel policies for Naval Aviators decided? What actually were the options considered at various points in time?). It also masks some flaws in logic: the authors are fond of saying that the interwar navies were like cash-strapped gamblers in a casino, who could not afford to lose, and so spread their bets evenly. Apart from the implicit assumption that a rich man can afford to lose everything, this is an excellent way to military disaster, making onself weak everywhere; and it is not explained how refusing to make a choice among options is actually making a choice. Neither is the book particularly well-written; in too many places I had to go over again a sentence or paragraph, trying to figure out just what the authors were trying to say. "Related to the concept of cost is that of risk"--immediately after two paragraphs apparently discussing risk. This book might be useful to find some facts and ideas not otherwise immediately available; or, I would hope, as an inspiration for a more thorough and organized study.--CDR, USNR, ret.

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The development of aircraft carriers and carrieroperations sparked a revolution in military affairs, changingcompletely and irrevocably the prosecution of war at sea. Previousstudies and histories of carrier aviation have focused on just one ortwo factors, such as individual leadership or advances in aviationtechnology, to explain the development of carrier forces. By contrast,this new history compares the development of carriers and carrieraircraft by two very different navies to illuminate the many factorsthat effect the adoption of new military technology.Focusing on the critical years after World War I, the authors tracethe personal, organizational, and institutional elements that movedthe U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy along different paths of aircraftcarrier development and operations. In a clear, almost conversationaltone the authors draw on years of research to explain why and how theRoyal Navy lost its once considerable lead in carrier doctrine andcarrier aircraft development to the Americans in the years after 1919.Originally asked to produce a study for the Office of the Secretary ofDefense that would maximize the value of decreasing defense fundsthrough wise investment in new technologies, the authors revised andexpanded that work after a wide-ranging, international search forpreviously unused primary sources. This new effort offers bothcompelling history and a trenchant essay on how and why militaryorganizations adopt and develop revolutionary technology. Itsunconventional approach should appeal to readers interested in modernnaval history and in revolutions in military affairs.

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Iowa Class Battleships: Their Design, Weapons and Equipment Review

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(More customer reviews)Bob Sumrall is very well known among the Naval community and this book is one of his best efforts.Of course, I am a bit prejudice as I was the structural design project leader and hull configuration manager for the reactivation of the 4 ships in the 1980's. In a way, it is a shame that the book was published before the (still debated and despised) inactivation of those tremendous Dreadnoughts. Then the author could have included their last hurrahs at Lebanon (USS NEW JERSEY) and the Arabian Gulf (USS MISSOURI and WISCONSIN). I also would like to have seen his comments on the IOWA turret II "incident". But, the book is more of an overview on the technical aspects of the ships rather than a blow by blow historical log. And that's the way it should be. Garzke and Friedman have put out books of greater technical detail, but not every reader wants that much info. Stillwell is more into the human aspects of the Battleships. Sumrall, on the other hand, justifiably ignores the personal stories but highlights the most important technical nature of the ships. Any Naval historian or student of Naval Architecture should have a copy of this book in their collection.

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German Warships of World War I: The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft, 1914-1918 Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a fascinating book, because it is essentially what the subtitle says - the British Royal Navy's recognition and intelligence guide to the Imperial German High Seas Fleet. Friedman write the introduction to this reprint of that work, and ties in the history of such guides through WWII and to intelligence today, which is a fascinating little essay of its own.
The main points of this book are the details - including some operational details - of the German warships. Some ships already lost at the time of this volume (1917) have negligible coverage, so if you want to know about SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU do not look here. But the details on the extant ships of 1917 are surprisingly detailed, SEYDLITZ especially - it appears that the claim that the British had acquired her blueprints is true, based on the extremely thorough and accurate coverage of that vessel. There are also details such as the forward guns of German dreadnoughts not generally being fired at night (to avoid blinding the bridge crews in the days before flashless powder); how firing orders were transmitted to destroyer gun crews, and much more. Thus this is a most useful book for the serious student of the WWI German Navy even if the data is seen through a British filter.

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Royal Navy Escort Carriers Review

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(More customer reviews)The Royal Navy had considered converting merchant ship hulls into escort carriers before the Second World War, but it was not until 1940 that the Admiralty actually began conversion of a captured German freighter into HMS Audacity. All told, the Royal Navy built 44 escort carriers during the war and they played a critical role in winning the Battle of the Atlantic. In Royal Navy Escort Carriers, Commander David Hobbs, RN provides a 2-5 page history of each escort carrier, along with plentiful photographs. The volume also has 11 appendices, ranging from technical details of each class to embarked air units and a photo tour inside an escort carrier. This book is designed for the specialist reader and it is very useful as such, but it is not a general or campaign history.

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HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy Review

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(More customer reviews)Norman's book begins with a fundamental mistake on its very first page, a description of the Hood's adversary, the Bismarck, as a "pocket battleship" (an error also found in Ian Kershaw's otherwise estimable biography of Hitler). This was a term applied only to the first three warships Germany built after the First World War, the Deutschland (later Lutzow) the Admiral Scheer and the Admiral Graf Spee, which by treaty were limited to 10,000 tons. The Bismarck was a full battleship (over 50,000 tons fully loaded) and, at the time of her launching in 1939, the largest in the world.
The problem with any biography of the Hood (Edwin Hoyt's poorly written "The Life and Death of the HMS Hood" is a similar example) is that for the first 19 of her 20 years of existence she led a relatively uneventful career, so the first part of Norman's book tends toward the anecdotal (the ship's pets, some of her more colorful characters, etc.), while the latter part simply rehashes material better stated elsewhere. Norman's theories concerning Admiral Holland's tactics and the Hood's final explosion tend toward the far-fetched and don't really add anything to the scholarship of this subject. He would have done better to consult Robert Winklareth's "The Bismarck Chase," which, while it contains errors of its own, at least explores in detail issues of naval gunnery with some degree of knowledge. Kennedy's "Pursuit" and Mullenheim-Rechberg's "Battleship Bismarck" still remain the preferred and most accurate sources.

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The sinking of the HMS Hood on May 24, 1941 dealt a major blow to the British Royal Navy. Like Titanic years before, Hood had seemed invincible and much of the hopes of the Royal Navy rested with her as the nation entered the war with Germany. But in just seven minutes after an encounter with Bismarck and her consort Prinz Eugen, HMS Hood sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic, taking the lives of 1,418 men with her. Author Andrew Norman explores the events leading up to the disaster and the legacy it left in its wake.

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The Frogmen of World War II: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams Review

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(More customer reviews)"Navy Frogmen of World War II" combines two subjects that have enjoyed enormous popularity in recent years: World War II exploits and Special Operations. The Navy Frogmen were a precursor to the Navy Seals, and were often engaged in some of the most dangerous behind-enemy-lines operations. It's hazardous enough to storm a beach in full combat gear during an amphibious invasion, but even more perilous to scout or destroy obstacles on that same beach clad in only swim trunks and armed with a dive knife. Obviously, these men and their courage are worthy of our attention and praise. The prologue and the comments in between the oral testimonies establish that both the Army and the Navy had equivalent units intended to scout and clear potential landing areas, while also providing some thematic background on their development.
The oral comments themselves are interesting, but there is a tendency for repetition. There are too many comments about training and not enough about actual operations. The author should have edited the comments or streamlined the material to cover the various aspects of the Navy Frogmen operations. As it is, the repetition tends to get tedious. The oral history is a great approach to military history, and the stories of these men need to be captured, but this book could be better.


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Before the Ironclad: The Development of Ship Design, Propulsion, and Armament in the Royal Navy, 1815-60 Review

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(More customer reviews)David Brown provides the reader with a wealth of insight on the workings of wooden ships. He emphasizes wooden warships. An extensive bibliography is provided for further reading.
Brown focuses on the works of Sir Robert Seppings, an early 19th century shipwright who wrote about the deficiencies of wooden shipbuilding. This eventually led to the use of diagonal planking. In an appendix, Brown compares wooden and iron ships: "In a wooden ship, it was the distortion of the sides of the hull which was the major problem. Seppings' analogy of a five-bar gate without the diagonal bar is a good one. Resistance to this change of shape came from friction between the planks which, up to a point, could be increased by hard caulking. Seppings' diagonal trusses were a great improvement but the rows of gun ports still weakened the side structure." (p. 204). Owing to the working of planking, it was impossible to incorporate effective watertight bulkheads (p. 74).
The labor requirements (man-days) for wooden ship construction are provided (p. 170). Brown also gives us statistics on various wooden ships (length, beam, draught, depths, armament, armor, speed, length/beam ratio, mid-section coefficient, prismatic coefficient, etc.) He also includes a graph of bare-hull weight as a function of the ship's dimensions and type (pp. 194-195). The reader may be amazed about how much wood went into wooden ships!


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Battleship and Cruiser Aircraft of the United States Navy 1910-1949 Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this book because it fills a missing niche in my aircraft library, even my refrence books only gloss over this aircraft types.
This book is full of photos of the various types of aircraft, quite a few shots of the ships they were on, plenty of action shots in recovery, landing, takeoff, etc. Lots of data tables on what type was assigned where at any given time. Experimental types are shown as are those on smaller ships.
The one thing it lacks is 1st person accounts. Specific stories about pilots doing this or that. It is more of a technical reference than a historical reference of that type. The photo captions do more of telling the tale than the main chapters of the book.
The way it's laid out is a 3-6 page introduction to the chapter. Here are a few of the 1st person accounts. Then depending on the chapter 10-20 pages of aircraft assignments, etc and then 20-30 pages of black and white photos. There are no color photos in the book. I'd estimate that half or over half the book is photos.
This is a very nice reference for a subject usually neglected.


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The World Encyclopedia of Cruisers: An illustrated history of the cruisers of the world, from the American Civil War to the Royal Navy's last ... warships with 500 identification photographs Review

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(More customer reviews)MR.BERNARD IRELAND is indeed a BRITISH NAVAL SCHOLAR of the world.He has
a lifelong interest in naval history and development, having spent more than 30 years in ship research for the Admiralty in ROYAL NAVAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICE. MR. IRELAND is a REAL EXPERT of WARSHIPS.(please
read my other review of AIRCRAFT CARRIERS by MR.BERNARD IRELAND.)
The CRUISERS is an eye-opener for novice like me about HISTORY, DESIGN,
CONTRUCTIONS, SEA-WARFARES, of the world CRUISERS from Pre-WW I, WW I,
WW II and even to certain period of present time.
It is very interesting to cover such a broad scope of the detailed history of the development of cruisers including so many countries'
naval defense. It is not a easy job!! Mr.BERNARD IRELAND did a great
job for such a good reference for general NAVAL ENTHUSIASTS and in
particularly for young men who might be interested to persuit a career in
NAVY, no matter which country, you are born. Love of SEA, JOIN the NAVY
for NATIONAL SECURITY at SEA. No wonder, the ROYAL BRITISH NAVY is so
advance with the help of brilliant scholar like MR. BERNARD IRELAND!!
However, I would like to suggest Mr.BERNARD IRELAND to publish another
update of this great book in future.(Even the present edition is 2008).
The BOOK: CRUISERS will be more interesting if Mr.IRELAND will cover
more NEW CRUISERS of modern days in COUNTRIES such as: CIS(RUSSIA), there is only one to two pages about USSR, and it's outdated. Then JAPAN's
modern day SELF-DEFENSE NAVY's modern day CRUISERS will be interesting,
then PEOPLE's REPUBLIC of CHINA's MODERN DAY CRUISERS in PRESENT PRC's
NAVY, also TAIWAN's(part of CHINA) also has a NAVAL FORCE. And of course
the most important issue was USA NAVY's coverage was not up to date in
this book!! Mr.Bernard Ireland stopped at the CRUISERS of USA in this book at the:
LONG BEACH (CGN.9) and the CALIFORNIA and VIRGINIA classes only!!
The most important USA CRUISERS such as the GUIDED MISSILE "TICONDEROGA" class CRUISERS which are the Aegis cruisers. Also, the GUIDED MISSILE
"ARLEIGH BURKE" class DESTROYERS which are actually a smaller CRUISER, are
missing in this edition.
Of course, there are the IMPROVED VERSIONS of the both classes too. All these details are missing in this edition of MR. IRELAND's BOOK: CRUISERS,
which making the book outdated and incomplete!!
Again I have strong conviction that MR.IRELAND's books are good books as a primer for HIGH SCHOOL students who are interested with
WARSHIPS!! I strongly recommend every library should keep a volume of
Mr.IRELANDS BOOK!! It is very interesting!!
I am looking forward for MR.IRELAND's future update of this book:
THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA of CRUISERS, 2009 or 2010 perhaps??
I shall share with you my reviews for future editions if you don't mind
my humble opinions!! Until then, I remain your friend from HONG KONG,
CHINA!!
Cheerio!!
BEST REGARDS,
STEPHEN M. YUNG,
HONG KONG,CHINA.
TEL:(852) 97541382 Email:steveyung8@gmail.com

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The cruiser evolved from a variety of powered sailing warships, employed in independent operations. The impact of rapid technological advance during the Victorian era saw the cruiser quickly assume familiar forms.

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U.S. Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: An Illustrated Design History Review

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(More customer reviews)This book has the most detail on the subject of any that I have found. Many line drawings. I only wish that it also had drawings of some of the ship's hull lines suitable for scratchbuilding models. I'm researching my next boat (vietnam 100' PGM) and this book confirmed that it is just an extended USCG 95' patrol boat with additional armament. It is truly the best $42 resource I have ever purchased. Get it, you won't be disappointed.

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Navies in the Nuclear Age: Warships Since 1945 (Conway's History of the Ship) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book provides excellent overview concerning development of every category of postwar warships. Moreover, the development of naval weapons, equipment and propulsion systems is described. It is necessary to note that the aim of this book is not to describe individual classes of warships, but to inform readers about main trends in their development. Very useful part of this book is the section concerning naval literature.
Because authors are well-known experts in the field of naval affairs, the information provided by this book are serious and exact. This books was written not for naval experts, but for naval enthusiasts. As a result, the text can be recognized as "friendly" for those readers who are not educated in naval matters.
There are many books concerning development of specific categories of warships only (for example submarines or aircraft carriers). There are also many books which describe development of warships in whole (including sailing warships, steam warships and so on). The development of warships since 1945 is usually described in such books very briefly. However, progress in warships' design during this period is very significant. This book is probably the first book which describes postwar development in warships' design in more detail. This feature can be considered as the most valuable.
Conclusion: This book should not miss in library of each naval enthusiast.

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By 1945 the threat to warships from above and below the water's surface had come to dominate naval strategic and tactical planning. Although many of the traditional ship designation, like cruisers, destroyers, and frigate, continue to be used, they no longer imply a specific role. This volume - the seventh in an ambitious series - therefore emphasizes such broader themes as anti-submarine warfare or electronics, which involve many ship types.

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