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Title: The World War II Warship Guide by Robert Hewson, Bob Jackson ISBN: 0-7858-1230-X Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Summary: World War II Warship Guide
Comment: The illustrations in this book are excellent, accurate and well-detailed, although I wish they'd done the full hull rather than waterline views -- it gives a much more accurate picture of the relative size of these ships. My one complaint here has to do with picture of the Flower class excort corvette HMS Anchusa. If the text is going to talk about the "Hedgehog" anti-submarine weapon, then why doesn't the illustration show it?
The text itself is a different matter, containing, as it does, an appalling amount of misinformation. The battlecruiser HMS Hood, for example, had 15-inch guns, not 13-inch, and she was not top-heavy and slow; she sat lower in the water than her original design and for 20 years was one of the fastest capital ships ever built. The battleship HMS Prince of Wales was not sunk by "a small and outdated German torpedo," she was sunk by Japanese bombs and torpedoes, the latter having at the time more speed, better range and more explosive power (to say nothing of better reliability) than anything the Allied or Axis navies had produced. The cruiser Prinz Eugen participated in the "Channel Dash," but this is defined as the voyage (in company with the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) from the French port of Brest back to Germany, not, as this book would have it, to the North Atlantic with the battleship Bismarck. The information on the dimensions, machinery and complement of the armored cruiser HMS Jervis Bay (described as "unavailable") is readily available if the author bothered to look it up. And some of the weights and crew numbers of these ships make no sense at all. I could go on, but what's the point? Doesn't anyone check these facts or do elementary proofreading? For a work that purports to be a reference work (and even if it isn't), there's no excuse for this kind of sloppy research.
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Title: Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century by Bernard Ireland, Tony Gibbons ISBN: 0004709977 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Jane's Naval History of WWII by Bernard Ireland, Tony Gibbons ISBN: 0004721438 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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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: German Heavy Cruisers 1939-45 (New Vanguard, 81) by Gordon Williamson, Ian Palmer ISBN: 1841765023 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jane's Warships Recognition Guide 3e by Robert Hutchinson ISBN: 0007137222 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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