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Battleships and battlecruisers / Richard Humble.
LIBRA V815 .H85 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humble, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Battleships.
- Cruisers (Warships).
- Penn Provenance:
- Nilsson, William F., Jr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Winchmore Pub. Services, [1983]
- Contents:
- Sailing navies and the line of battle
- From wooden wall to steam iron clad, 1827-1866
- From broadside to Turret, 1866-1886
- The pre-dreadnoughts, 1886-1905
- The impact of Tsushima, 1905
- The Dreadnought Battleship, 1905-1914
- The Battlecruiser, 1905-1914
- Dreadnoughts at war, 1914-1918
- The shadow of the super-dreadnought, 1919-1945
- The Pacific, 1941-1945
- End of an era, 1945-1960
- American resurrection, 1960-1983
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Connoisseur.
- Local Notes:
- Ex Libris Nautica copy presented to the Penn Libraries by LT. CMDR. William F. Nilsson, Jr., USNR (Ret.).
- OCLC:
- 15288593
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