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Laddar... South American Battleships 1908–59: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile's great dreadnought race (New Vanguard)av Mark Lardas
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. An excellent addition to the New Vanguard line. Good concise review of a little known corner of Dreadnought history. Good narrative, drawings and artwork for all the ships. I like that it also covers the Rio de Janeiro (Agincourt) and the never built Riachuelo (very similar to the Queen Elizabeth class) and the Eagle as a carrier. Would give five ***** but there were a couple of material unforced errors. One where the book states the British Orion class had 14" main guns (they were 13.5") and the other stating that the USS North Carolina was a pre-dreadnought battleship when it was a Tennessee class armored cruiser (in 1910 - not to be confused with the later battleship). ( ) I liked this book a good deal; it sheds light on a somewhat neglected corner of history; the development of some of the few battleships that existed outside of the major naval powers. It is highlighted, to a certain extent, how pointless this arms race was. Almost pure hubris. Well worth reading, and recommended. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, greatest category of warship available--the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought by itself could defeat the combined gunnery of every other warship of all the other South American nations. Brazil's decision triggered its neighbor Argentina to order its own brace of dreadnoughts, which in turn forced Chile (which had fought boundary disputes with Argentina) to order some. In the process, the South American dreadnought mania drove the three participants nearly into insolvency, led to the bankruptcy of a major shipyard, and triggered a chain of events which led Turkey to declare war on Great Britain. It also produced several groundbreaking dreadnought designs and one of the world's first aircraft carriers. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)359.3252Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval Science Organization of military forcesKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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