Download or read book Jane s Battleships of the 20th Century written by Bernard Ireland and published by HarperResource. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the greatest battleships from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.
Download or read book Jane s American Fighting Ships of the 20th Century written by John Moore and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a logical description of the U.S. fleet as it changed, was reinforced and modernized until it became the vast fighting machine we know today.
Download or read book Jane s War at Sea 1897 1997 written by Bernard Ireland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of fighting ships and major players in world naval operations, from the navies of Great Britain in the late 1800s to the post Cold War vessels used in the Gulf War.
Download or read book Jane s Naval History of WWII written by Bernard Ireland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a naval historian, reveals the critical elements that determined the war at sea.
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships of World War I written by John Evelyn Moore and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduced from the wartime editions of Jane's All the World's Ships.
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships of World War II written by Francis Edwin McMurtrie and published by Gramercy Books. This book was released on 1946 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the ships used by the British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and American navies during World War II
Download or read book Battleships of the World written by John Fidler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battleships of the worlds navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and mounted guns on the broadside, firing solid shot.In the next half century, steel, steam and shells had wrought a transformation and by 1906, Dreadnought had ushered in a revolution in naval architecture. The naval race between Britain and Germany that followed, led to the clash of the navies at Jutland in 1916. Though this was indecisive, the German navy never again challenged the Grand Fleet of Britain during the war, and eventually the crews refused to put to sea again.Disarmament on a massive scale followed, but the battleship was still regarded as the arbiter of sea-power in the years between the wars. However, the advocates of air power were looking to the future, and when in 1940 biplane Swordfish torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm sank three Italian battleships at their moorings in Taranto, the Japanese sensed their opportunity. Their attack on the American Pacific fleet base at Pearl Harbor sank eight battleships but the American carriers were at sea, and escaped destruction. Given the distances involved, the Pacific war was necessarily a carrier war, and in the major actions of the Coral Sea, Midway, Leyte Gulf and the Philippine Sea, all the fighting was done by aircraft, with battleships reduced to a supporting role.Soon after the war ended, most were sent for scrap, and a naval tradition had come to an end.
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships 2002 2003 written by Jane's and published by Janes Information Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include - Foreword on world naval events - Submarines - Surface warships - Auxiliaries - Armed paramilitary vessels - Naval aircraft - Ensigns and flags - Ranks and insignia - Pennant list of major surface ships - Strength of fleet table - Ships disposed of in the last few years - Senior naval appointments - Naval bases and coastal defence - Performance data
Download or read book Jane s Naval Airpower written by Bernard Ireland and published by Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is an illustrated guide to the development of the aircraft as an instrument of naval power from its inception in the early 20th century to the modern day. Naval warfare was transformed by airpower, but it was a hit and miss process. The Royal Navy pioneered the use of aircraft carriers during World War I, but famously lost Prince of Wales and Repulse to land based Japanese bombers in 1941. From the early days of airships and bi-planes, the carrier planes of the Pacific to the very latest in carrier based strike aircraft, and anti-submarine helicopters, Bernard Ireland reveals how airpower has revolutionized naval warfare.
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships written by Jane's and published by Ihs Global Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include - Foreword on world naval events - Submarines - Surface warships - Auxiliaries - Armed paramilitary vessels - Naval aircraft - Ensigns and flags - Ranks and insignia - Pennant list of major surface ships - Strength of fleet table - Ships disposed of in the last few years - Senior naval appointments - Naval bases and coastal defence - Performance data
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Aircraft of World War I written by and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reproduction of Jane's All the World Aircraft, wartime editions.
Download or read book Jane s All the World s Fighting Ships 1898 written by Fred Thomas Jane and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mighty Hood written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. When it was launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy. As a battle cruiser, “The Mighty Hood” was fast enough to evade enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for all the Hood’s might, it had one fatal flaw: armor had been sacrificed for speed. In 1941, the Hood confronted the legendary German warship Bismarck. A salvo from the enemy penetrated the Hood’s ammunition magazine, destroying the British ship and killing all but three of its crew. The brutal defeat marked the end of the Royal Navy’s dominance. But it also inspired Winston Churchill’s vow to sink the Bismarck—a vow that in time was fulfilled. Through oral history and documentary research, Ernle Bradford chronicles the Hood’s career from design to demise, with colorful insight into life aboard the ship as well as its broader historical significance.
Download or read book JANE s Fighting Ships of World War II written by Antony Preston and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jane s Fighting Ships 1900 written by Frederick T. Jane and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile printing of Jane's Fighting Ships, 1900, the third edition of the most authoritative source of information about the navies of the world. An essential reference book for a naval library.
Download or read book The Kaiser s Battlefleet written by Aidan Dodson and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated study of the German Imperial Navy presents a ship-by-ship history from the dreadnaught era through WWI. The battleships of the Third Reich have been written about exhaustively, but there is little in English devoted to their predecessors of the Second Reich. In The Kaiser’s Battlefleet, Aidan Dodson fills this significant gap in German naval history by covering these capital ships and studying the full span of battleship development during this period. Kaiser’s Battlefleet presents a chronological narrative that features technical details, construction schedules and the ultimate fates of each ship tabulated throughout. With a broad synthesis of German archival research, Dodson provides fresh data and corrects significant errors found in standard English-language texts. Heavily illustrated with line work and photographs drawn from German sources, this study will appeal to historians of WWI German as well as battleship modelmakers.
