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The Battleships

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Do not expect the detail of a Jane's nor the wonderful photos you would usually expect from a coffee table book, so do not be deceived by the cover.

This book is skimming over a BBC TV series. Whilst it has a few nice pictures, it is just that, a picture book, and not for the serious enthuiast. It consists of many frequently published photos and a few artist's renditions to fill up space.

From the first truely famous British warship, the Mary Rose, to the HMS Victory, graduating to steel vessels, Dreadnoughts and to great battleships such as the Yamato and the American Iowa class ships; It only provides a brief Synopsis of a bygone era.

for those who have not seen the 3 tv shows called the battleships it is something to watch for and a lot better than most crap on television today. The companion book at first did not impress me a lot. I have a number of ww1 and ww2 era warship books in my collection. It starts with a brief section on wooden warships. It quickly progresses to predreadnoughts and moves to the end of the era. There are better books for deck by deck breakdowns of the ships. This book deals with the why did they do things this way and politics and strategy and ecomomics. There are excellent photos of these ships and top view and side view diagrams. The text is very substantial and well thought out. the technical specs on each series of ships was informative and at medium detail considering the scope of the book.
This book in summary covered a lot on naval action theory plus the politics and economics and personalities and is light on heavy technical detail. Coffee table book BS