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British Battlecruisers : 1905-1920 / John Roberts.
LIBRA V820.5.G7 R5997 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, John, 1945 January 16- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Battle cruisers--Great Britain.
- Battle cruisers.
- Cruisers (Warships)--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Cruisers (Warships).
- World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, British.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as "super-cruisers" whose job it was to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a fast squadron of capital ships. This book traces in detail the development of Fisher's original idea into the first battlecruiser Invincible of 1908, through to the "Splendid Cats" of the Lion class, and culminating in HMS Hood in 1920, the largest warship in the world for the next twenty years. The origins of the unusual "light battlecruisers" of the Courageous type are also covered." - publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published : London : Chatham, 1997.
- Poster (1 folded sheet) in pocket attached to inside back cover.
- Includes bibliographical sources, notes, and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591149156
- 1591149150
- OCLC:
- 967706966
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