Ship Killer: A History of the American Torpedo

by Thomas Wildenberg and Norman Polmar

Since the start of the 20th Century there have been several thousand books published about submarines and on the order of a thousand discussing aircraft attacks on ships. The principal weapon of most of those submarine attacks and many of the aerial attacks--both by land- and carrier-based aircraft--was the torpedo. Indeed the torpedo and the mine share responsibility--by a large margin--for sinking more ships than those lost to gunfire and bombs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591146887
• ISBN13: 9781591146889
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"