The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed the History of War

by Ernle Bradford

Book Overview

The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.

During its reign from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, the battleship was the most powerful weapon of war known to man. Strategically, it determined a war's outcome. Tactically, it dominated every sea battle. But at the Battle of Taranto in 1940 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, carrier-borne aircraft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1497637899
• ISBN13: 9781497637894
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"