Warship 2012 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844861562 ISBN 13 : 9781844861569

Editeur : Conway, 2012

Synopsis

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 features articles on a range of diverse subjects, including: the construction of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in the period 1906-16; the career of the French pre-dreadnought Gaulois; the story of TB191 - Tasmania's only torpedo boat; the IJN battlecruisers of the Kongo class; the loss of the Italian armoured cruiser the Giuseppe Garibaldi; the two auxiliary vessels Jules Verne and Le Gladiateur built for the Marine Nationale; the second part of an article on French fire control from 1900-13; an account of the light cruiser Yahagi at the Battle of Leyte Gulf; Russian monitors of the mid to late 1800s and a piece on the new generation of non-nuclear air-independent submarines. Contributors to the 2012 annual include Ian Johnston, Philippe Caresse, Mark Briggs, Hans Lengerer, Zvonimir Freivogel, John Spencer, Conrad Waters, Mike Williams and Stephen McLaughlin. The customary Warship notes and gallery sections complete the annual.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Jordan is the editor of the Warship annual and a lifelong student of French naval history on which he has written extensively.

Stephen Dent is the assistant editor of Conway's Warship annual. He also edited Conway's The War At Sea (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Conway
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844861562
• ISBN 13: 9781844861569
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Jordan John, Dent Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible