"In this book, the sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought, renowned warship author D.K. Brown brings his knowledge and experience as a warship designer to the story of the Royal Navy's development of World War I warships and the influence of that conflict on futur…
"The RN fleet in 1945 was enormous, but it was old and worn out, and Britain faced austerity and a reduced world role. In addition, new threats and technologies rendered even the most recent ships obsolescent. How designers responded to these unprecedented challenges is the cent…
"Winston, Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to North America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of US and Com…
Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of US and Commo…