PublishedStackpole, October 2008 |
ISBN9780811735148 |
FormatSoftcover, 448 pages |
Dimensions22.9cm × 15.2cm |
Although naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships--larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction when war broke out in 1939. The war would hasten the battleship's decline, but not before producing dramatic moments at sea around the globe: the hunt for the Bismarck, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, the defeat of the Graf Spee, and the earth-shattering bombardments on D-Day.
Peter C. Smith recounts these and other stirring episodes of naval combat with verve and authority.
