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Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and Warfare)

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Another pathetic entry in this series. There may be some nuggets of useful information in here, and he certainly has all the relevant sources in his bibliography, but the author does not seem to have used made very effective use of them.

The data seems to be presented in text (not Tabular) format (Downloaded from the web?). I mean looong blocks of text in some cases, there were a LOT of U-boats, all chaotically listed, with another chaotic block of text on their fates.

He could not even present a coherent text description of American Submarine Development prior to WW II (By class, he could have taken that striaght from Friedman, a source listed in his bibliography), or their propulsion system.

And the illustrations are all from one not particulary good source (The subtitle is "An Illustrated History of their impact").

This series seems to have problems like this, I wish I could give it zero stars and send it straight to the shredder.