Us Fast Battleships 1936-47: The North Carolina and South Dakota - New Vanguard No. 169

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Burr has had a lifelong passion for naval history, and is a British specialist on the battle of Jutland. He has also conducted underwater explorations of Battlecruiser wrecks. He lives in the USA. Peter Bull graduated from art college in 1979 and has worked as a freelance illustrator for over 25 years. He has created both traditional and digital art for publishers worldwide, and also runs the Peter Bull Art Studio, based in Kent, UK, which he founded in 1975. Klappentext This volume details the design, construction, and operation of the first six of the ten US fast battleships, two of the North Carolina class and four of the South Dakota class. These six battleships were all authorized in 1936 and were the first vessels built in the US since 1923. Consequently, these ships benefitted from enormous technological leaps, with improvements in ship design, power, armor, armament and the single most important improvement the use of radar guided fire control helping to change the course of the war in the Pacific. Packed with first-hand accounts, battle reports, and specially created artwork this book tells the story of these war-winning vessels.This book shows how the evolution of technology affected battleships, transforming them from the somewhat ineffective weapons of the First World War into radar-guided, accurate, and devastating weapons which swung the outcome of the war in the Pacific back in favour the Allies. Zusammenfassung Details the design, construction, and operation of the first six of the ten US fast battleships, two of the North Carolina class and four of the South Dakota class. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction · Design and development · Operational History

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Burr, Burr Lawrence
• Assisted by: Tony Bryan (Illustration), Peter Bull (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2010
• EAN: 9781846035104
• ISBN: 978-1-84603-510-4
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 249 mm x 5 mm
• Series: New vanguard series; New Vanguard; New Vanguard; New vanguard series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / Military / United States, Military vehicles, Warfare & defence, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Naval forces and warfare, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles / Sea