Salvo! : epic naval gun actions / Bernard Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Bernard, 1926-

Series:

Cassell military classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval battles.

History.

Naval battles--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Nilsson, William F., Jr. (donor)

Physical Description:

192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Cassell, 1999.

Summary:

Classic fights on the high seas! No much how much, warship technology has advanced, one thing remains the same: the commander who fires the first, most salvo immediately has the odds in his favor. Among the hard-fought ship-to-ship gun battles here are: a very early naval struggle at the in 1894; epic fights at the Falklands in 1914; night encounters in the Pacific; duels to the death on the Carmania and Cap Trafalgar in 1914; and more.

Contents:

Yalu River, 20 September 1894

Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914

Carmania and Cap Trafalgar, 14 September 1914

Emden and Sydney, 9 November 1914

Falkland Islands, 7 December 1914

Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915

Königsberg, 6 July 1915

The Destroyers, April-December 1917

Rawalpindi and Scharnhorst, 22 November 1939

Renown and Gneisenau, 9 April 1940

Cape Matapan, 28 March 1941

Kormoran and Sydney, 19 November 1941

Java Sea, 27 February 1942

Savo Island, 9 August 1942

Stephen Hopkins and Stier, 27 September 1942

Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942

Barents Sea, 31 December 1942

Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Arms and Armour, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p185) and index.

Local Notes:

Ex Libris Nautica copy presented to the Penn Libraries by LT. CMDR. William F. Nilsson, Jr., USNR (Ret.).

ISBN:

0304351717

9780304351718

OCLC:

41019270

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