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Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-100306811162
ISBN-139780306811166
eBay Product ID (ePID)2115095
Product Key Features
Book TitleFleets of World War II
Number of Pages388 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicMilitary / World War II, General
GenreHistory
AuthorRichard Worth
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal629.8/25/09044
SynopsisFor the first time ever for a popular audience, an extraordinary single volume that describes-and assesses in no-holds-barred fashion-every navy that took part in the Second World War, For decades, the legions of World War II buffs interested in Allied and Axis naval history were limited to expensive, multi-volume works written for specialists. No longer will this be the case. Fleets of World War II, packed with data and illustrated throughout, is not a simple list of ships but a fascinating and often pungent appraisal of those ships and the fleets they served. Japan built the world's largest battleships with guns bigger than anything in the Allied arsenal-but was biggerin fact better? The British engaged in a wartime flurry of ship production-but did they build the ships they needed for victory? Fleets of World War II dispels the clutter, providing a straightforward appraisal that is nothing short of revelatory.A complete resource, the book includes every nation that took part in the war, along with the key neutrals. Each fleet is surveyed in totality, from the mighty battleships to the humble motor launches. The systematic, plain-English presentation makes for easy reference: nation by nation, ship by ship, with a multitude of details on design, strategy, and combat available nowhere else.
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- 22. Jun. 2022
Useful but not complete.
This is only a guarded recommendation. The author is very forthright in his opinions, many of which I share, but the major lack or grossest omission is WHERE ARE THE COMMONWEALTH NAVIES! Almost 2/3 of the entries are nations without real navies or fleets, who only declared war on Germany in the spring of 1945 (in order to join the UN) like San Marino, land locked with no navy (seriously?) covering those 40+ uses barely 30 pages of text (~9%), often only a single sentence paragraph, while Canada (which went from 6 DD class warships to ~400 over 500 tons in just 6 years) and Australia lost more ships than all these countries as well as the larger neutrals listed had combined. The lack of ship dimensions and other traditional data doesn't help when making comparisons as when he makes a point of why some designs fell short of their promise or the competition. This is interesting and useful but hardly definitive.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
