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Book ID Asin: 0754820831
Book Title: The World Encyclopedia of Battleships & Cruisers: The complete illustrated history of international naval warships from 1860 to the present day, shown in over 1200 archive photographs
Book Author: Peter Capt. Hore,Bernard Ireland
Book Format and Price:
Book Format Name: Hardcover
Book Format Price: $130.77
Book Format Name: Paperback
Book Format Price: $29.99
Book Price: unknown
Book Category: Books, Engineering & Transportation, Transportation and unknown
Book Rating: 28 ratings

Book Product Detail

• Best Sellers Rank: #3,313,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #413 in Military Encyclopedias
  • #2,182 in Ship History (Books)
  • #7,218 in Naval Military History

• Customer Reviews:
  4.3 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Book Review

Name: Lawrence Puchala
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Has a few flaws but a very nice book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2022
Review: Sure it was a minor problem that there are no line drawings but that might make it too unwieldy. Also the size prohibits the detail you might want. On the plus side, The narrative surrounding the 2 ship types is appreciated.

Name: Ringmaster
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Leaves You Wanting...
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2011
Review: This is a volume that will wet your appetite but leave you wishing for more. Very dense and heavy for such a compact size (7"x9"x512 pages), Mr. Hore and Mr. Ireland's book would have benefitted greatly by being printed in a format at least 50% larger than it is. Most of the vast collection of photographs reprinted herein are too small to make out alot of detail, and disappoint. Also the lack of line drawings of any kind is regrettable. Technical data on the myriad ships is kept very basic, with brief historical anecdotes on each class of ship and somewhat longer articles on historical events and battles involving particular ships throughout various time periods. But the immensely broad scope of the subject covered precluded anything really detailed or indepth on any one particular ship, understandibly.

While a huge number of various ships and classes are covered, none are really very satisfying beyond the briefest glimpse with only a little elaboration before going on to the next. So much to cover, the pictures are too small to properly appreciate, and the text is also small enough to cause some difficulty for extended periods of reading. There is evidence that better proofing of the text would have eliminated some typographical errors (on page 106, Braunschweig class, "...with extra boilers and three funnels, they produced a speed of 8 knots, which was one knot faster the Wittelsbachs and Kaisers." The previous page had listed the Kaiser class speed to be 17 knots.

As a naval enthusiast and admirer of the ships of the past, I found much of interest in this volume and enjoyed the many more obscure entries, brief as they were. This book covers ALOT of ships. I am not an naval expert or maritime scholar, so I am undoubtedly more easily pleased than a more 'professional' and discernng scholar of naval history.

Larger format, larger photographic reproductions, some line drawings showing top view layouts and silhouettes would have made this a much more useful and enjoyable volume. Dividing it into two seperatly published volumes covering battleships in one and cruisers in the other would have made more sense to me.

Name: KCK
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very Good, But Not Current
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2012
Review: Opinions regarding the differant classes of warships given in the book are from a British perspective. They are very good, but a bit slanted when it comes to some of those warships used in WW II.
Although claiming to be "up to the present time", the book's coverage is not. Warship classes planned or commissioned after ca. 1970 are rarely, if ever covered. The Falklands War of 1982 is briefly mentioned. All-in-all, a very good job of discussing battleships & cruisers 1870-1970.

Name: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Entirely reliable product information.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2019
Review: Entirely satisfied with my purchase.

Name: Jay/Lynnie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2014
Review: 11 year old asked for book about battleships for his b-day. He loves the detail & pictures as well as all the historical information. thanks

Name: john clemens
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good reference material.
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2012
Review: The book is well detailed on the history and development of each class of ship, photos are good, only thing missing is a detailed drawning of each ship. Overall an excellent book.

Name: Nancy J. Trenz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book!
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2014
Review: We sent it to our grandson who liked very much!

Name: Daniel Nichols
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One Star
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2015
Review: Not what I expected.

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