The Falklands Factor: The Battle That Changed the Shape of Ships

by David Laurent Giles

After the failure of Britain's latest air-defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: the S90 'Short Fat' frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles. This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author's forty-year hard-fought batt le with naval authorities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic to prove the virtues of his designs, which they had rejected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739164075
• ISBN13: 9781739164072
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.