The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to ...
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 ...
In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy.
Harrison, a member of a ...