A definitive study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author's research and experience during his 30-year career as a river inspector in China. A lavishly produced volume.
“There is really nothing to compare it with, and it is unlikely that it will be superseded in the foreseeable future.”—The New York ...
A definitive study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author's research and experience during his 30-year career as a river inspector in China. A lavishly produced volume.
“There is really nothing to compare it with, and it is unlikely that it will be superseded in the foreseeable future.”—The New York ...
While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received only minimal coverage. However, the fates of defeated navies are of enormous interest from a number of perspectives. This new book traces the history of navies and ships of the defeated powers from the months ...
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 ...