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Title: The American Battleship by Samuel Loring Morison, Norman Polmar, Steve Gansen ISBN: 0-7603-0989-2 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: False advertising
Comment: I have written both amazon.com and MBI (publisher of this book)that the editorial description is inaccurate. Both amazon.com and MBI insisted they didn't know the facts, and for a short time changed the description of the book. I was even offered the right to return the book. As another reviewer has said, there are NO cutaway drawings; the pictures are all overused, hackneyed shots easily found elsewhere. This book simply isn't worth the money. Formerly, naval historian Norman Polmar's name was featured in the listing; now he's reduced to an "et al" -- was he upset his name was associated publicly with the book? To me, the fact they (amazon.com and MBI) both continue to advertise what clearly is not in the book now amounts to false advertising. They cannot claim any more that it was all a mistake. MBI doesn't surprise me; but amazon.com doing this does. And I will be very surprised if amazon.com has the courage to print this.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not for an experienced battleship reader
Comment: If you are new to battleship books or buying one for someone who is new to them, then I would recommed this book. If you are an experienced reader of battleship books and have many like me, then skip this book. You won't find anything new here. The text and most of the pictures are not new. Contrary to the editorial reveiw there are no cutaways and blueprints. The editorial review also described the book as a pictorial history with archival photos. Though the book does contains lots of pictures, most have been published in other battleship books. The Library of Congress Photographic Division and Naval Historical Society have hundreds of beautiful, never before published photos of US battleships. I was hoping this book would show some of them in large format.
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Title: German Battleships 1939-45 (New Vanguard, 71) by Gordon Williamson, Ian Palmer ISBN: 1841764981 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Warship Boneyards by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner ISBN: 0760308705 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by ROBERT K. MASSIE ISBN: 0679456716 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: German Pocket Battleships 1939-45 (New Vanguard 75) by Gordon Williamson, Ian Palmer ISBN: 1841765015 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Battleships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 by William H., Jr. Garzke, Robert O. Dulin, Thomas G. Webb ISBN: 1557501742 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
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