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Title: Fleets of World War II by Richard Worth ISBN: 0-306-81116-2 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Attn author: don't stop with this one book.
Comment: Ten bucks off the cover price is the one improvement this work needs. A fine book for a landlubber such as myself seeking a non-technical intro to WWII battlefleets. Ships normally given short-shift in other naval tomes (Mine-sweepers, corvettes, patrol craft etc) are painstakingly listed and described.
Other reviewers moaned the lack of line drawings...oh, please. Looks like you'll just have to read the fine print. Too many WWII books are long on graphics, short on theory.
I enjoyed the nitty gritty details as in each of the Yamato's main turrets weighed as much as a destroyer, that Italian designs mounted their gun muzzles too close for any degree of accuracy, that many US cruisers were top heavy, to the point of instability, with the latest gear.
I'm glad I made this purchase. Enjoy.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read...
Comment: The author has done a great job. This book is full of obscure facts and some suprising opinions that will get the reader thinking. It has filled a void in the field and I recommend it without reservation.
Rating: 3
Summary: A decent Starting point
Comment: This seems to have a listed every nation that existed during the entire time frame of the conflict (1939-1945). They are listed in alphabetical order of the Nation. From there an overall review of the fleet, the weapons, and then Naval Aviaton. At
that point it lists the combat units of the fleet from BB(or CV if the fleet had them) down to the MTB's that served the fleet. Prior to the listing of the units the author gives an overview of the building projects and how then changed over the course of the war. When the Author talks about the class he lists them by the first name of the class followed by the rest that were built with the class. Also listed is the hull numbers(or Pennant #'s), displacement, Main and secondary battery's, size of torpedos carried, number of aircraft(if carried), speed and when the class was first built. EXAMPLE:LEXINGTON,SARATOGA (CV2,3:36,000tons;eight 8-in,twelve 5inDP guns, AC
90, 33knots 1927).
Followed by that will be a review of the pros and cons of the class when compared compared against some stables of the world. (example the author considered the Yamato Class BB's to be too heavy and drastically inferior to even the S. Carolina Class of BB's or the Nelson class BB's.). Some of these comparisions are based simple things like the age of the units at other times these comparisions are down on the preformance of water tight integtriy and the main batterys performance on things like Velocity of the round and weight of the round fired.
There are some down points to this book. The author decides not to mention what units did what major fleet actions or were in theater during major campaigns. This information would of been nice to compare at a glance the units that were avilable during operations like the defense of Malta Convoys or fight for Gualdalcanal. That the fact that the author for some of the lesser navies or those navies of nations that surrendered to the Axis at the start of the war the listings and review of the class are noticably shorter. The biggest chapters of the books are for the navies of the UK,USSR, Japan, Germany, and the USA. For some of these nations there are reviews in passing of some of thier planned building (like the US and thier Montana Class of BB's) at other times he dives into a serious review of the projects and plans (like the Germany Graf Zepplin CV) but the
author seems selective on which projects he covers and which he just glosses over.
The other point though this book has some pictures it only has pictures of the main or major representive units of a type of ship. They may show the Essex as a representive of American carrier or the Bismarck as an example of the German Battleships. That is it for pictures there is no line drawings or even siloheuttes of the ships.
Like most others have written this is a decent book to start with for research. But not the end all that it might of been. There is serious room for improvement.
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