Nearly 120 entries provide information about the capital ships of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Soviet Union, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Spain and Turkey. Aspects such as early development and twentieth-century building programmes, armament, requisitioned ships, unfulfilled orders, and ships in the two world wars are covered as appropriate for each nation. A short history of each ship or class of ship is given, as well as data tables detailing displacement, dimensions, machinery, fuel capacity, speed and range, armour thickness and weight, armament, anti-aircraft weapons and the numbers built. The name of the builder is listed with the date each ship was laid down, launched, commissioned and in service. Photographs or drawings accompany every entry.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting Book,
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This review is from: Battleships of the World (Hardcover)
I have found this book a good addition to my library. It contains sokme unique photos of minor Navy Battleships and an interesting commentary on German battleships; the book is translated from the German and brings a Non British/American slant to the topic. In addition, it shows pre-WWI in both their original form and then as modified in WWII which is rarely available from other sources which tend to describe but not illustrate the changes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not as Bad a Book as You Think,
By wonderrat "wonderrat" (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Battleships of the World (Hardcover)
From the reviews seen here, one would think that Greger's book is a complete dog; but it's not that bad. One thing that Greger does well is his description of the ships of the minor naval powers such as the Austro-Hungarian and South American navies. It seems as if there is more of an emphasis on German ships, which is refreshing as there is not as much information on the Imperial German navy and Kriegsmarine as there should be. Also interesting are the drawings of the projected Soviet dreadnoughts.A pretty good effort, definitely on a par with anything written by M. J.Whitley, and in some respects better than Whitley's latest effort on battleships. Don't write this one off completely!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Extremly disappointing,
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This review is from: Battleships of the World (Hardcover)
Very little information content. Also replete with some rather silly typos and glaring errors. Poor line drawings.
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