Great Warships From the Age of Steam
By David Ross.
Description
The great era of the steam warship was from the mid-1860s to the mid-1940s-an eighty-year period in which a huge variety of large ships were built, ever greater in size, firepower, and technical sophistication. Large capital ships, with their batteries of huge guns capable of destroying targets dozens of miles away, were the most expensive and destructive weaponry available to nations prior to the atomic bomb, and their development can be traced decade by decade. Arranged in chronological order, Great Warships from the Age of Steam provides concise coverage of the most famous warships of th...
ISBN(s)
1435154878, 9781435154872
