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The latest volume of this highly acclaimed annual maintains the well established impressive standards of scholarship, research, news and reviews from the field of warship history. This edition includes articles on the US Navy's Lexington class battle cruiser design; extensive research into the grounding and destruction of HMS Effingham in 1940; the origins of Dupuy de Lome, the world's first armoured cruiser; the battle for Casablanca between the US Navy and French forces in November 1942; and the impact of the capsizing of the torpedo-boat Tomozuru on design parameters and subsequent construction in the Imperial Japanese Navy; along with the second in a series of articles on modern warships by Conrad Waters, which looks at the French BPSs of the Mistral class and Juan Carlos I, the new LHD being built by Navantia for the Spanish navy.
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John Jordan is a former language teacher. He is the author of two major books on the Soviet Navy, and more recently co-authored French Battleships 1922 56 (Seaforth, 2009) with Robert Dumas. He has been associated with Warship from its earliest beginnings and took over the editorship in 2004. Stephen Dent is the assistant editor of Conway's Warship annual. He also edited The War At Sea in Photographs, 1939 1945 (Conway, 2008).
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I look forward to this fine annual every summer
3 July 2011
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For the past few years I've fallen into a comfortable groove with this annual offering. Around the end of the year I put it in my wish list, wait for it to show up in my Gold Box, preorder, and then wait about 6 months until the book is released. And every year it delivers the goods.
This year we have 11 articles along with the regular features Warship Notes, Naval Books of the Year, and Warship Gallery. Of the articles, three were of special interest to me, two because they supplement books I've enjoyed by the authors. "The Croiser de Bataille de 37 000 tonnes" by Jordan will please anyone who enjoyed his fantastic "French Battleships 1922-1956". Similarly, McLaughlin's "Russia's First Ironclads" leads me to hope that a "prequel" of sorts is in the works to his "Russian and Soviet Battleships". Conrad Waters series on current warships continues with "Modern Amphibious Assault Ships". This series is quickly becoming a favorite.
The book reviews are always my favorite feature. Again a few titles of interest that I had not previously have heard were reviewed.
As always warship enthusiasts will love this book. I recommend all volumes of this annual very highly.
This year we have 11 articles along with the regular features Warship Notes, Naval Books of the Year, and Warship Gallery. Of the articles, three were of special interest to me, two because they supplement books I've enjoyed by the authors. "The Croiser de Bataille de 37 000 tonnes" by Jordan will please anyone who enjoyed his fantastic "French Battleships 1922-1956". Similarly, McLaughlin's "Russia's First Ironclads" leads me to hope that a "prequel" of sorts is in the works to his "Russian and Soviet Battleships". Conrad Waters series on current warships continues with "Modern Amphibious Assault Ships". This series is quickly becoming a favorite.
The book reviews are always my favorite feature. Again a few titles of interest that I had not previously have heard were reviewed.
As always warship enthusiasts will love this book. I recommend all volumes of this annual very highly.
Warship 2011
7 July 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
These books are always classics. This volume is one of the best so far, they typically get more expensive when they are used, and this one is likely to follow this trend (the ones that don't tend to have more obscure topics and less interesting articles). This one has plenty of battlecruiser articles - the predecessor of the fast battleship, sacrificing armor for speed while retaining a battleship armament. If you have ever seen one of these before, this is a classic edition and a good bargin for this type of book.
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