The Aircraft Carrier Story 1908-1945 [Hardcover]

Guy Robbins (Author)

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Publication Date: May 28, 2001

Operating from seaborne bases and able to function in most weather, aircraft carriers enabled planes to attack with a freedom that changed the conduct of battle at sea forever. A valuable history recounts their rough beginnings in the First World War; the developments made by Britain, the US, and Japan in technology and strategy; and how carriers supplanted traditional capital ships as the core of naval warfare. Includes superb photographs and reports of their wartime engagements-successful and not.

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Calais, Maine

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Cassell; 1st ed edition (May 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304353086
• ISBN-13: 978-0304353088
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,944,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars nice book but .., December 6, 2004

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M. Frattola "allamag" (Genova Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Aircraft Carrier Story 1908-1945 (Hardcover)

.. i didn't like the way it's organized. for each major navy (US,UK and Japan), the author writes the story of the evolution of its own carrier project. so the reader goes into the 20s, the 30s and the 40s three times. i'd have probably liked a more time-based approach, maybe with sidebars or other ways of diving into each navy peculiarities, instead.
anyway, the book is very interesting and explains very well the trial and error process that generated the carriers that fought WWII. i'd like to read a follow-up to this book, going from 1945 to present time.