This new book explores for the first time the full story of how two Turkish and two Chilean battleships became British capital ships after the outbreak of World War I. Under construction by the shipbuilding giants of Armstrong and Vickers in August 1914, Sultan Osman I, Reșadiye, Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane became HM Ships Agincourt, Erin, Canada and Eagle ...
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The Windfall Battleships
Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan & Latin-American Arms Races
Available Formats: Hardcover
The Hunter Hunted
Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present
Today the submarine itself is regarded as the most potent anti-submarine weapon, but it was not always so. This book traces the growing effectiveness of the submarine as a hunter of its own kind, using a carefully selected series of dramatic incident from the earliest days to some nuclear "near misses" during the Cold War.
Here are some fifteen dramatic ...
Available Formats: Hardcover