Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol. 2) [Hardcover]

Robert Gardiner (Editor), Randal Gray (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 439 pages
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press (November 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870219073
• ISBN-13: 978-0870219078
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 8.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,476,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Veritable encyclopedia of the Great War navies, August 10, 2005

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Simon-Pierre Paquette (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol. 2) (Hardcover)

The 1906-1921 book of Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships is arguably the second best in the series after the outstanding (although increasingly rare and outrageously expensive) 1947-1995 volume. It includes highly detailed histories of the various ship classes and a great deal of information. This sets it apart from the 1922-1946 edition, which feels strangely empty because it contains little in terms of history of individual ship classes and drowns the reader in facts and figures.

As such, the 1906-1921 edition reads much more like a very detailed history book than its successor, while giving us the same amount of facts and statistics, and is all the better for it.

I recommend it without reservation to fans of naval warfare, provided you can find a copy...

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" book!, August 20, 2001

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Pierluigi Malvezzi (MILANO Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol. 2) (Hardcover)

This book, together with the other of the serie that cover the period from 1860 to the present, is an outstanding one, the ideal reference book for the person looking for informations about the evolution of the modern warships through the description of the ship themselves. The book is divided into sections, each dealing with one nation's navy; the ships of every nation are grouped by type and each class is described by a brief textual introduction, a tabular description with the main ships' detail (size, machinery, artillery, armour and so on) and, for each ship, the building dates and the fate. The textual description is, at least for the greater ship category (battleship, carriers and cruisers) quite detailed and reports a lot of interesting data about the building, the machinery, the operational career and some other interesting stuffs. There is a good number of very good drawings and photographs (not as detailed as a ship modeler would hope, but this book is not for the modeler) and you can find in the books every nation that ever possessed a warship. A "must have" for every naval enthusiast!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Conways 1906-1921 is great, October 12, 2000

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Larry Newcomb (Boulder, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906-1921 (Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, Vol. 2) (Hardcover)

Conways has always been the most reliable of all the warship histories books. Including specifications, histories, and pictures/drawings of all the ships. A history of each countries navy (during the 1906-1921 era) at the beginning of each nationality listing gives you good reference to understand the type of ships each nation needed and used. This book is very interesting for the World War One expert and/or naval historian or simply a warship lover. I use this book to look at various ships for radio control warship combat. I love this book and look at it many times a week and will buy all the rest of the series of books (Conway All the Worlds Fighting Ships). If you are at all interested in naval warships, definitely buy this book.