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The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to serve--for scholars and enthusiasts alike--as the foundation for U.S. naval warship research and reference for years to come. U.S. Battleships is one the most comprehensive references available on the entire development of U.S. battleships, starting in 1886, with Maine and Texas, continuing to South Carolina, the U. S. Navy's first dreadnought, through to the behemoth Montana-class of World War II, Friedman authoritatively analyzes the design and performance histories of this popular type. The long careers of the Iowa-class, including their recommissioning in the late Cold War, are covered. Like the other books in Friedman's design-history series, U.S. Battleships is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records. Friedman, a leading authority on U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts the evolution of each design. Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III have created detailed scale outboard and plan views of each ship class and of major modifications to many classes. Numerous photographs complement the text.… (más)
This is an excellent book, as long as you know what you're getting into. It is not a novel, it is not a story, it is not even a history of events you follow really, it truly is the *DESIGN* history of US Battleships. The actual battles, patrols, missions, etc... the ships engaged in are hardly mentioned except as they impacted the design of Battleships.
For instance the chapter "Battleships at War, 1941-1945" is 44 pages long, or about the same length as the section on the North Carolina Class (38 pages). And really the "at War" chapter is mostly about how the ships evolved over the course of the war as lessons were learned from Pearl Harbor, kamikaze attacks, etc...
This is a typical paragraph "BuOrd argued that it would be far better to widen the main belt by 2 feet than to introduce a point of weakness in the juncture between main and lower belt. Armor tapered down by more than 5 inches could not be face-hardened, so the belt itself could not taper to less than 6.5 inches or 7 inches. There could not even be a smooth transition between the two belts. As for the 2-inch STS, in the absence of experimental data the General Board retreated to a more conventional arrangement, a complete 1.5 inch torpedo bulkhead set well inboard."
That is not to say that's bad, you will struggle to find a book that follows exactly how Battleships were designed more intimately anywhere, but I'm sure to 99% of people out there it's dry as hell. Don't read this expecting to read tales of great battles, captains of ships, and close calls. You will learn how much weight dictated EVERYTHING when it came to battleships, especially with the Washington Treaty. How ships had to be designed many years in advance in anticipation of decades of service, how the Navy wanted to have a uniform line of battle but budget cuts kept on forcing them to make a couple ships so it was a mixed bag of various classes they had to work with. I found the last chapter almost the most interesting, how they tried to convert Battleships into missile platforms, or commando ships, or an extremely well armored tanker. We all know what eventually happened, but the book could use a new version to finish the story of the Iowas with the 1980s refit and service in the Operation Desert Storm, plus the book barely touches on service during the Korean War. Effectively it ends in the mid 1950s. ( )
The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to serve--for scholars and enthusiasts alike--as the foundation for U.S. naval warship research and reference for years to come. U.S. Battleships is one the most comprehensive references available on the entire development of U.S. battleships, starting in 1886, with Maine and Texas, continuing to South Carolina, the U. S. Navy's first dreadnought, through to the behemoth Montana-class of World War II, Friedman authoritatively analyzes the design and performance histories of this popular type. The long careers of the Iowa-class, including their recommissioning in the late Cold War, are covered. Like the other books in Friedman's design-history series, U.S. Battleships is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records. Friedman, a leading authority on U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts the evolution of each design. Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III have created detailed scale outboard and plan views of each ship class and of major modifications to many classes. Numerous photographs complement the text.
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For instance the chapter "Battleships at War, 1941-1945" is 44 pages long, or about the same length as the section on the North Carolina Class (38 pages). And really the "at War" chapter is mostly about how the ships evolved over the course of the war as lessons were learned from Pearl Harbor, kamikaze attacks, etc...
This is a typical paragraph "BuOrd argued that it would be far better to widen the main belt by 2 feet than to introduce a point of weakness in the juncture between main and lower belt. Armor tapered down by more than 5 inches could not be face-hardened, so the belt itself could not taper to less than 6.5 inches or 7 inches. There could not even be a smooth transition between the two belts. As for the 2-inch STS, in the absence of experimental data the General Board retreated to a more conventional arrangement, a complete 1.5 inch torpedo bulkhead set well inboard."
That is not to say that's bad, you will struggle to find a book that follows exactly how Battleships were designed more intimately anywhere, but I'm sure to 99% of people out there it's dry as hell. Don't read this expecting to read tales of great battles, captains of ships, and close calls. You will learn how much weight dictated EVERYTHING when it came to battleships, especially with the Washington Treaty. How ships had to be designed many years in advance in anticipation of decades of service, how the Navy wanted to have a uniform line of battle but budget cuts kept on forcing them to make a couple ships so it was a mixed bag of various classes they had to work with. I found the last chapter almost the most interesting, how they tried to convert Battleships into missile platforms, or commando ships, or an extremely well armored tanker. We all know what eventually happened, but the book could use a new version to finish the story of the Iowas with the 1980s refit and service in the Operation Desert Storm, plus the book barely touches on service during the Korean War. Effectively it ends in the mid 1950s. (