176 pages. Oversized book, measuring 8-3/4 inches wide, and 11-1/4 inches long. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color pictures. Cover illustration shows wear. One volume from the 22 volume set issued in faux blue leather. Includes Bibliography, Picture Credits, Acknowledgments, and Index, as well as chapters on A Teutonic challenge to Britannia's Rule; Training for a new era of ships without sails; The Fabulous Fleet that Jacky Built; Artful appeals to a nation at way; The Long Wait for Armageddon; Mine Warfare: Seeds of Death Planted in the Sea; A Fierce Skirmish of Scouts at Jutland; A Duel of Dreadnoughts: 50 minutes of fury; The Drama of Jutland through a German's Eyes; and Dishonor and Suicide for the Kaiser's Navy. David Armine Howarth (28 July 1912 - 2 July 1991) was a British naval officer, boatbuilder, historian and author. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he became a war correspondent for BBC radio at the start of World War II. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. He served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and helped set up the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St Olav. After the war, he wrote books on naval and military history, including a memoir of the Shetland Bus. This volume in The Seafarers series takes a look at the development and use of battleship technology in World War 1, culminating in a detailed account of the Battle of Jutland and its anticlimactic aftermath. HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship that was seen as revolutionizing naval power. The name of the ship, and the class of battleships named after her, means "fear nothing". Dreadnought's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of ships named after her. Likewise, the generation of ships she made obsolete became known as "pre-dreadnoughts". Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of Dreadnought. Shortly after he assumed office, he ordered design studies for a battleship armed solely with 12 in guns and a speed of 21 knots (24 mph). He convened a "Committee on Designs" to evaluate the alternative designs and to assist in the detailed design work. Dreadnought was the first battleship of her era to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a few large guns complemented by a heavy secondary armament of smaller guns. She was also the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest battleship in the world at the time of her completion. Her launch helped spark a naval arms race as navies around the world, particularly the German Imperial Navy, rushed to match it in the build-up to the First World War. Ironically for a vessel designed to engage enemy battleships, her only significant action was the ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29, becoming the only battleship confirmed to have sunk a submarine. Dreadnought did not participate in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 as she was being refitted. Nor did Dreadnought participate in any of the other First World War naval battles. In May 1916 she was relegated to coastal defense duties in the English Channel, not rejoining the Grand Fleet until 1918. The ship was reduced to reserve in 1919 and sold for scrap two years later.

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T�tulo: The Dreadnoughts
Editor: Time-Life Books Inc, Alexandria, Virginia
Fecha de publicaci�n: 1979
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0809427133
ISBN 13: 9780809427130
Encuadernaci�n: Hardcover
Edici�n: First Printing [Stated].
Estado: Good

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