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Warships After Washington by John Jordan (Paperback, 2015)
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The Washington Treaty was a watershed, and this book provides an important insight into its full significance.
- Buy it nowWARSHIPS AFTER WASHINGTON The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930
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The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade, but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers. This much is broadly understood by anyone with an interest in warships, but both the wider context of the treaty and the detail ramifications of its provisions are little understood. The approach of this book is novel in combining coverage of the political and strategic background of the treaty and the subsequent London Treaty of 1930 with analysis of exactly how the navies of Britain, the USA, Japan, France and Italy responded, in terms of the types of warships they built and the precise characteristics of those designs. This was not just a matter of capital ships and cruisers, but also influenced the development of super-destroyers and large submarines. Now for the first time warship enthusiasts and historians can understand fully the rationale behind much of inter-war naval procurement. The Washington Treaty was a watershed, and this book provides an important insight into its full significance. SELLING POINTS: . The first dedicated study of the treaty process that dominated inter-war navies . A readable summary of the political, economic and strategic background . Detailed analysis of warship design in all major navies 170 illustrationsProduct Identifiers
PublisherPen & Sword Books LTD
ISBN-139781473852730
eBay Product ID (ePID)221261933
Product Key Features
Publication Year2015
SubjectHistory
Number of Pages338 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWarships after Washington
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn Jordan
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJohn Jordan
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- 05 Apr, 2019
Tells it like it is
If warships interest you and Battleships etc "turn you on" pick up this book and find out how and why there was a "holiday" in warship building in the post WW1 period. Facts, figures and illustrations, what more could you want? Also mentions the ships that were planned, big stuff!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
