Warship 2018/Военный корабль 2018

Издание на английском языке
This richly illustrated naval history volume explores warship design, technology, combat operations, and the careers of notable vessels from different navies and historical periods. It combines detailed technical studies, tactical analyses, archival research, photographs, diagrams, and ship plans. The book will appeal to naval historians, researchers, modelers, and anyone interested in the development and operational history of warships.

Contents
Editorial.
Feature Articles.
Niels Iuel: ‘A funny little Danish warship’.
Tom Wismann investigates the conception and career of this unusual ship, designed as a low-freeboard coast defence battleship but completed as a hybrid cruiser intended to ‘show the flag".
The Battle of the River Plate: A Tactical Analysis .
Alan D Zimm presents an analysis of the tactics adopted by the British Commodore Henry Harwood and his German adversary, Captain Hans Langsdorff, during the Battle of the River Plate.
Under the Guns: Battle Damage to Graf Spee, 13 December 1939.
William J Jurens examines the damage sustained by Graf Spee during the battle, using contemporary British and German documents, some of which have only recently seen the light of day.
The Armoured Cruiser Jeanne d’Arc.
Luc Feron and Jean Roche tell the story of the first of a series of large, fast French armoured cruisers designed by the celebrated naval architect Emile Bertin.
Breaking ‘Ultra’: The Cryptologic and Intelligence War between Britain and Italy, 1931-1943
Enrico Cernuschi provides an Italian perspective on the success of ‘Ultra’.
The IJN Light Cruiser Oyodo.
Hans Lengerer provides an in-depth study of this unusual vessel, designed as flagship of a Submarine Flotilla.
Coast Defence and Coast Offence: Russian Monitor Designs of the First World War Era 115 Stephen McLaughlin pieces together the history of a number of projects for monitor-type ships that were considered by the Imperial Russian Navy, although none were built.
Modern Naval Replenishment Vessels.
Conrad Waters conducts a survey of the latest developments in replenishment at sea.
Lost in the Fog of War: Royal Navy Cruiser Designs for Trade Protection 1905-1920.
David Murfin uses the notebooks of some of the most prominent British naval constructors of the day to look at the designs of cruisers for trade protection, some of which were built while others remained on the drawing board.
Amatsukaze: A Destroyer’s Struggle.
Michael Williams follows on from Captain Tameichi Hara's classic account of the destroyer's early career, telling the story of her service from 1943 to 1945, when Japanese fortunes were on the wane.
USS Huntington (ex-West Virginia).
A D Baker III tells the story of this large armoured cruiser and provides plans of the ship as she was in 1920.
Warship Notes.
Reviews.
Warship Gallery.
Stephen Dent and Ian Johnston present a series of photographs of former U-boats in Japan during the early 1920s.