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BB-67 MONTANA, U.S. Navy Battleship

9:24 AM PST, February 14, 2008, updated at 9:51 AM PDT, April 21, 2008
Dear readers,

I am pleased to welcome you to the Amazon detail page for

BB-67 MONTANA, U.S. Navy Battleship: Why She Matters Today 

This is one of my favorites in the ever-growing Nimble Books list. The cover looks terrific--very realistic, just as if the Navy had really built the U.S.S. Montana!  The interior of the book includes:

  • pictures and information about the various design concepts that were explored
  • the specifications of the final Montana design
  • color pictures of a beautiful 1:700 scale model of Montana by Imre Somogyi
  • a beautiful color painting of Montana by author and artist Wayne Scarpaci
  • a picture of her never-built 1920's predecessor, BB-51 Montana
  • an essay on "Why She Matters Today"; and
  • a discussion of Senator Jon Tester's efforts to get the U.S. Navy to name a capital ship after his home state of Montana.
In short, this presents a unique package of art and text devoted exclusively to one of the most interesting hypothetical ships ever designed.

I'm very happy to see that this book is selling well.  I hope you enjoy it.

Cordially yours,

Fred Zimmerman
Publisher, Nimble Books LLC

P.S. if you are interested in reading other stuff about Montana, I recommend two major studies of U.S. battleships:

 U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman and
  Battleships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 (Battleships) by Garzke.

Both of these books rely on archival sources to give a highly technical history of the ten or twenty different designs that were considered for Montana.  My book's different in that I tackle the issue of "why do we care about this today" head-on.

P.P.S. *ALERT* -- battleship fans should definitely check out   Iowa Class Battleships and Alaska Class Large Cruisers Conversion Projects 1942-1964: An Illustrated Technical Reference,  by author and illustrator Wayne Scarpaci (Nimble Books, 2008).  This has a history with beautiful full color paintings of sixteen supercool conversion projects that were considered from 1942 from 1961 to turn the Iowas into everything from fleet aircraft carriers to commando ships to ICBM launchers.

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I have worked at the intersection of computers and publishing for most of my adult life, beginning with a stint as Staff Writer for Sextant, the magazine for Heathkit personal computers, and most recently in product development for LexisNexis, a unit of the professional publishing giant Reed Elsevier plc.

I founded Nimble Books so that I could give myself the "green light" to launch new and interesting publishing projects.

Nimble Books publishes timely, relevant "living books" on a wide variety of subjects ranging from Harry Potter and Dan Brown to health, science, politics, and sports.

I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA with my beloved wife Cheryl and treasured children Kelsey and Parker.



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