The World Encyclopedia of Battleships and Cruisers: A Complete Illustrated History of International Naval Warships from 1860 to the Present Day Shown in Over 1200 Archive Photographs - Hardcover

Captain Peter Hore; Bernard Ireland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754820831 ISBN 13: 9780754820833

Publisher: Lorenz Books, 2011

Synopsis

This is a complete illustrated history of international naval warships from 1860 to the present day shown in over 1200 archive photographs. It presents an illustrated history of battleships and cruisers from 1860 to the present day, featuring informative and expert descriptions of over 400 ships detailing their construction, function and history. It includes three fascinating directories for both battleships and cruisers, each focusing on a particular time period: pre-World War I, World War I, then World War II and beyond. Specification boxes provide at-a-glance information about each ship's country of origin, launch date, size, weight, power, performance and more. It features over 1000 colour and black-and-white archive photographs from naval and military sources worldwide, many rarely seen before in publication. This meticulously researched and illustrated book is split into two sections, the first focusing on the history of the battleship, and the second on the cruiser. Each section includes a comprehensive history and three chronological directories featuring the major vessels of that era. Containing a huge volume of information, together with a unique collection of more than 1000 color and black and white archive photographs, this book provides both enthusiasts and historians with everything they will want to know about battleships and cruisers through history.

About this title

About the Author:

Captain Peter Hore served worldwide in the Royal Navy from 1962 to 2000. During the Falklands war he was joint logistics controller on Ascension Island, and he has headed both the Royal Navy's applied research programme and its non-technical research programmes. Peter is now associate editor of Warships International Fleet Review, op-ed writer for Newsday in New York and obituarist for The Daily Telegraph in London. Bernard Ireland spent 30 years in ship research for the Admiralty in the Royal Naval Scientific Service. He has worked as an illustrator for the shipping industry, producing impressions and technical cutaways for companies such as Canadian Pacific and Blue Star Lines, and has produced illustrations for the Port of London Monthly and technical posters for the Science Museum, Kensington. He is the author of over 25 specialist naval books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0754820831
• ISBN 13: 9780754820833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512