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THE WORLD’S WORST WARSHIPS
The Failures and Repercussions of Naval Design andConstruction 1860 to the Present Day
By Anthony Preston, Editor of the Warship annual, Editor of NAVINT, and Naval Editor of BATTLESPACE.
Conway
Price: £19.99
Book Club Price: £17.99

A serious international study from 1860 right up to the present day.

Covers a wide range of experimental, badly designed or just disastrous ship types from all nationalities. Although the title is deliberately provocative, this is a serious study of the reasons why some warships have achieved such bad reputations. Some warships achieve notoriety because they are so outlandish, either in design or appearance. Others are lost dramatically in action or in an accident, suggesting serious weakness in their design. Some warships never endear themselves to their operators, whose opinions foster prejudice against that design. In reality, few ships are incompetently designed. Most errors originate at naval staff level, with flawed operational concepts, over-ambitious specifications, poorly designed sub-systems(usually weapons), or financial stringency. Some warships are built to meet a rational tactical need, which disappears before the ship enters service. In wartime many warships are forced to perform tasks never even imagined during the design stage, bringing their alleged shortcomings into prominence. Examples that will be covered in this comprehensive volume include the Russian Popovkas and the Borodinos; the French Duquesne cruisers; the German battleship Bismarck and the ‘pocket battleships’ of the Deutschland class; the British vessels Hood, Captain, Swift and the ‘K’ class submarine; the US civil war monitors, and the vessels Katahdin and Vesuviyus, and the Japanese cruiser Mogami and the battleship Yamamoto.

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ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR TWO
By John Lambert and Al Ross
Conway
Price: £40.00 each
Book Club Price: £36.00 each

The only publication to deal comprehensively with the technical detail of those boats that made up our coastal forces. Volume I covers all the designs of the British Fairmile Marine Company and US Submarine Chasers. Volume II examines the manufacturers Vosper MTB and the US ELCO designs.

Reprints available now
Volume I: ISBN 0 85177 5195
Volume II: ISBN 0 85177 6027
295 x 248mm 256 pages Hardback
700 line drawings & 235 photographs

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