Книга на английском языке superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of south america's war of the pacific. in the late 19th century, a war erupted between chile and peru, the catalyst...
Книга на английском языке since 1805, the royal navy had reigned supreme on the world’s oceans. though this supremacy was challenged at times, by the turn of the 20th century the royal navy was facing its most serious challenge in some 100 years. this challenge came in the...
Книга на английском языке this book examines all the us navy heavy cruisers built during and after world war ii. this includes the largest class of heavy cruisers ever built, the 14-ship baltimore class. of these, only seven were commissioned in time to see service during...
Издание на английском языке the book is dedicated to the british light cruisers that served in the royal navy during the second world war. it examines their development, design, armament and combat use. the author analyzes how economic and diplomatic constraints, such as...
Издание на английском языке the launch of hms dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. this revolutionary new battleship was in a league of her own, capable of taking on any two "pre-dreadnought" battleships in a straight fight. a naval arms race followed...
Издание на английском языке the imperial navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships. of these, most were 5,500-ton ships designed to act as destroyer squadron flagships. this made the imperial navy’s light cruisers much...
Издание на английском языке the book is dedicated to the unusual naval battle off the commander islands, which took place during world war ii. she describes how this battle became a kind of relic of the past, when ships fought each other on the high seas, unlike the more...
Издание на английском языке the book describes the development of dreadnoughts, the naval race and the competition between the usa, great britain and japan. contents introduction world war i battleship development the royal navy the imperial japanese navy the united...
Издание на английском языке in 1914 britain’s royal navy was completely unprepared to tackle germany’s u-boats. thanks to their ability to submerge and stalk their adversary unseen, submarines represented a new and particularly potent threat. before the war winston...
Книга на английском языке in november 1859, the french warship la gloire was launched. she was the world's first seagoing ironclad-a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad...
Книга на английском языке. a new illustrated history and analysis of italy's [url00-01040069]world war ii[/url00-01040069] destroyers, a formidable foe for allied forces attempting to attack the sea lanes between italy and north africa. the italian royal navy (regia marine...
Книга на английском языке amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of britain's expeditionary campaigns since world war ii, from the suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as borneo (1963–66), the falklands (1982), sierra leone (2000) and...
Книга на английском языке this fully illustrated study examines the us's first six battleships, a story of political compromises, clean sheet designs, operational experience, and experimental improvements. these ships directly inspired the creation of an embryonic american...
Книга на английском языке fully illustrated with stunning artwork, chinese ironclad battleship vs japanese protected cruiser is the engrossing story of the yalu river campaign, where chinese and japanese warships fought for control of korea. the 1894–95 war between china...
Книга на английском языке republican rome’s navy originated from the clash of the 3rd century bc mediterranean superpowers, when carthage was the master of the western mediterranean at sea, and the young roman res publica had already conquered the italian peninsula. on the...
Книга на английском языке in 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to...
Книга на английском языке the opening months of world war ii saw britain's royal navy facing a resurgent german navy, the kriegsmarine. following the german invasion of denmark and norway in early april 1940, british and german destroyers would clash in a series of battles...
Книга на английском языке the roman empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. it was only the existence of the fleet that secured the trade routes and maintained the...
Книга на английском языке an illustrated history of the long cold war careers of the us navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized world war ii-era [url00-01015352]fletcher[/url00-01015352] -class to the forrest sherman-class. the finest american destroyers of world...
Книга на английском языке it was official – the age of the gunboat had passed. in december 1904, with a few strokes of his pen, the first sea lord sir john ‘jacky’ fisher decreed that the royal navy would scrap most of its large fleet of gunboats. it was a force he...
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