Fletcher-Class Destroyers

by Alan Ravan and Alan Raven

Complete with original dust jacket. NO loose or missing pages. Spine is straight with no damage. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870211935
• ISBN13: 9780870211935
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Low information density. Buy it for the pictures.

Fletcher-Class Destroyers by Alan Raven Forty three pages of pictures. Eighty pages of drawings. Six pages on paint schemes and camouflage. Only thirteen pages of prose. I would have liked more information. I would have thought that such a book would include details about magazine capacity and shell types. I looked for and did not find the number of depth charges carried, although I was able to count them in some of the pictures. Alan Raven is a great writer on the subject of World War Two naval ships, but this was a perfunctory effort. There is almost nothing on details, deployments, survivability, combat, operations, tactics or significant actions. Whether I can recommend this book depends on the price. I bought an inexpensive used copy and consider it good value for what I paid.