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List of contents
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Fatal Vision -- 2. In the Beginning: Traditions of the Naval World -- 3. Upon This Rock: The Technological Revolution and the Prophet Mahan -- 4. Crusaders in Blue and the Grail of Seapower -- 5. Sacred Vessel: The Dreadnought -- 6. The Evil Below ... and Above -- 7. Trial by Fire: Battle in the North Sea -- 8. Crisis of Faith: Protecting the North Atlantic -- 9. Martyrdom: Dreadnoughts in the Wake of Versailles -- 10. Requiem: The Washington Naval Conference -- 11. Life After Death: Rehabilitating the Dreadnought -- 12. Conclusion: Vampires of Seapower -- Appendix -- Notes -- About the Book and Author -- Index.
About the author
Robert L. O'Connell is Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. Dr. O'Connells first book was Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression. He is a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, for which he has written numerous articles and essays.
Summary
Sacred Vessels is an irreverent account of the modern battleship and its place in American naval history from the sinking of the coal-fired Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf in 1991.
