From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surfa
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the ha
For nearly 150 years, the battleship has been the embodiment of a nation's power. This book traces the evolution of the mighty ships, from the battle cruisers o
Throughout two world wars, the battleship served as the ultimate naval gun platform and was the king of warships. Even in this, the era of the supercarrier, bat
Battleship describes the evolution from the wooden man-of-war plated with iron armour to the great steel leviathan of the Second World War, and its ultimate dis