This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of development before the World War I and an account of a few notable cruiser actions during that conflict that helped define what cruisers would look like in the post-war world. The core of the ...
The torpedo-bomber reached its zenith in World War II, particularly from 1940–42, with notable successes at the Battle of Taranto, the sinking of the Bismarck, and Pearl Harbor. It was the weapon of choice for both the US and Japanese in the big Pacific battles such as Midway. In the latter stages of the war, increasingly effective anti-aircraft fire and ...
The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the
new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing
so she rendered all other capital ships then afloat completely obsolete. Ten years later the
V&W Class did to destroyers what the dreadnoughts had done to battleships: they set a
completely new and higher ...