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Title: American & British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919-1941 by Norman Friedman, Thomas C. Hone, Mark David Mandeles ISBN: 1-55750-382-6 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $46.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: a well-done history
Comment: Britain started out ahead, but partly for that reason her carrier forces (and especially planes) were less suited for combat than America's. This is an excellent study of how that came to pass. Sadly missing is an equally insightful look at the Japanese carrier fleet, which in the winter of 1941-42 was arguably the equal of America's.

Rating: 5
Summary: Just what the title promises :)
Comment: An intelligent and thoughtful study of how it happened that the United States started late, yet managed to enter World War II with a better carrier force than the Royal Navy. (In part, this was because the US *did* start late, and therefore didn't have an installed base of obsolete equipment.)

The only problem with this book is that it doesn't give equal time to the Japanese carrier fleet, which as it happened was America's only real competitor in this developing science.

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