Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. A little wear on dustcover corners. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This substantially researched volume covers the design construction and use of all those small fast fighting craft of all navies which were capable of more than about eighteen knots. The content is fairly technical and very comprehensive but great care has been taken to present the information in a way which is attractive to the ordinary reader and which can be easily understood. In particular almost all the illustrations run with the text and there are copious notes and supplementary tables at the end for the tech- nically minded. A particular feature of more general interest is the large number of contemporary photographs as well as related plans and sketches. These cover the significant variations in boats designed and built in all countries both those used in these navies in home waters and those sold to other navies for use abroad. The members of the growing number of war-games societies will value these illustrations and their accom- panying statistics no less than the historian and research worker for whom they supply a comprehensive and com- pact source of detailed knowledge. (OS)