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The Encyclopedia of War Ships: From WWII to the Present DayReviewed by Stephen Winchell, 2009-10-11
A very good source of information on fleets of the world. Great for modelers, and anyone interested in consice descriptions and it is loaded with photos. It is truly a handy refrence book.
My opinionReviewed by E. Allan Mooney, 2008-09-30
Overall it was excellent. There is a lot of information. It was interesting that ships were divided by era. It didn't have a lot about Chinese warships but that information is hard to get. I would recomend it.
Avid Navy Historian get a big suprise for fathers dayReviewed by S. Kiely, 2008-07-14
I purchased this book for my Father law for Fathers day. When he
picked up the book he couldn't put it down until he had read every
page. Major Score.
Great pictures, describes every class of warshipReviewed by Puput Adrianto, 2008-06-03
This book is quite entertaining when it comes to the quality of
pictures. Its covers most of the warship classes in different type
such as Submarines, frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battleship, and
aircraft carrier.
You will get brief description on each class and also history of
the ship it self.
The writer devide the time line :
1. World War 2
2. Cold War
3. Modern
Each time line come with explanation on different type of warship
and classes. However, not everyship are covered. This book is not
intended for details reference.
I like this book because of the simplicity, not too heavy and come
with great pictures. I gave 4 stars instead of 5, because this book
more focus on the coldwar rather than WW2.
Warships Painted With a Wide BrushReviewed by Ronald Griscom, 2007-03-31
As a history buff, especially U.S Naval history in the Second World
World, I dug into this book with great expectations. However, after
finding a glaring error in the book, I find myself somewhat
skeptical of the entire work. The book, written and edited in the
United Kingdom, does a remarkable job of covering all types of
warships -- from escorts to destroyers to cruisers to battleships
to aircraft carriers. The book is divided into three sections;
Second World War, Cold War and Modern Day. The descriptions, albeit
short, should be interesting to the casual reader.
But, to the serious historian, BEWARE! As I said earlier, there is
at least one glaring error. Several pages after a glowing review of
the Nelson and Rodney classes -- proving the authors are British --
there is a section on the U.S. Iowa class battleships. In this
section, the authors claim that the Iowa class battleships -- the
Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin -- were not battleships.
Instead, they state to the effect that the Iowa class ships were
nothing more than battlecruisers, incapable of taking other
battleships. As a docent aboard the Battleship New Jersey Museum
and Memorial, I want to be the first to say this is dead wrong!
Although none of the Iowa class batleships arrived in the Pacific
in time to participate in battleship vs battleship fights, they
were certainly stong enough to have carried the day.
The Battleship New Jersey BB-62, when she sailed in 1943 was 887'7"
long, 57,353 tons in weight, sported nine 16 inch main guns, ten
dual 5" secondary gun mounts, twenty four-barrel Bofors 40mm AA
guns and 42 20mm Oerlikon AA guns. Its armor included 17" main gun
armor, 17 1/2" armor in the conning tower, and an armored side belt
starting at 12" slanting to nine inches at the keel, with an air
and liquid void system outside the armor belt. How anyone can say
that this is a batlecruiser is beyond me.
Although this may just be an example of the Brits trying to play up
the Royal Navy over the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Navy considers the Iowa
clas to be the biggest and best battleships built by the U.S.
Therefor, to me, this goes down as a glaring error and I am
currently searching for more.
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