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World
War
II
was
the
last
of
the
great
naval
wars,
the
culmination
of
a
century
of
warship
development
in
which
steam,
steel
and
for
finally
aviation
had
been
naval
use.
The
battles,
both
big
and
small,
of
this
war
are
well
known,
adapted
and
the
names
of
some
of
the
ships
which
fought
them
are
still
familiar,
names
like
Bismarck,
Warspite
and
Enterprise.
This
book
presents
these
celebrated
fighting
ships,
detailing
both
their
war-
time
careers
and
their
design
features.
describes
the
evolution
of
the
various
ship
types
how
their
designers
sought
to
make
compromises
to
satisfy
the
require
-
ments
of
fighting
qualities,
sea
-going
capability,
expense,
and
those
of
the
different
naval
treaties.
Thanks
to
the
research
of
devoted
ship
enthusiasts,
to
the
opening
of
government
archives,
and
the
publication
of
certain
memoirs,
it
is
now
possible
to
evaluate
World
War
II
warships
more
perceptively
and
more
accurately
than
in
the
first
postwar
decades.
The
reader
will
find,
for
example,
how
ships
in
wartime
con-
ditions
did
or
did
not
justify
the
expecta-
tions
of
their
designers,
admiralties
and
taxpayers
(though
their
crews
usually
had
a
shrewd
idea
right
from
the
start
of
the
it
In
addition
between
the
wars
:
good and
bad
qualities
of
their
ships).
With
its
tables
and
chronology,
this
book
also
serves
as
both
a
summary
of
the
war
at
sea
and
a
record
of
almost
all
the
major
vessels
involved
in
it.
How-
ever,
the
work
of
the
author
can
only
take
second
place
to
that
of that
anony-
mous
band
of
men
who
served
during
the
war
as
naval
photographers.
Thanks
to
their
competence,
and
often
to
their
en-
durance
and
courage
it
has
been
possible
to
illustrate
this
book
with
a
superb
array
of
pictures,
of
which
many
are
historical
documents
in
their
own
right,
and
others
,
of
great
aesthetic
impact.
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Edition
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The
American
and
British
concepts
of
the
35,000-ton
battleship:
U.S.S.
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(foreground)
and
H.M.S.
Duke
of
York
in
northern
waters
in
1942
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