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Fleets of World War II / Richard Worth.
LIBRA D770 .W67 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worth, Richard, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval architecture.
- History.
- Navies.
- Navies--History--20th century.
- Warships--History--20th century.
- Warships.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Sea control.
- Naval architecture--History--20th century.
- Military operations, Naval.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Nilsson, William F., Jr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- x, 375 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- "Fleets of World War II, packed with data and illustrated throughout, is not a simple list of ships but a fascinating and often critical appraisal of those ships and the navies they served. Japan built the world's largest battleships with guns bigger than anything in the Allied arsenal - but was bigger in fact better? The British engaged in a wartime flurry of ship production - but did they build the ships they needed for victory? Unlike most ship reference books, Fleets of World War II goes beyond the statistics to provide astute, practical analysis." "Every country's fleet - Allied and Axis navies, as well as the fleets of key neutrals - is surveyed in totality, from the mighty battleships to the humble motor launches. The book is organized for easy reference: nation by nation, with each entry offering a straightforward and unapologetic critique. Fleets of World War II dispels the clutter, providing a candid assessment of World War II fleets that is nothing short of revelatory."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Albania
- Argentina
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- The Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- Sweden
- Syria
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Yugoslavia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Ex Libris Nautica copy presented to the Penn Libraries by LT. CMDR. William F. Nilsson, Jr., USNR (Ret.).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Worth, Richard. Fleets of World War II.
- ISBN:
- 0306811162
- 9780306811166
- OCLC:
- 48806166
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