Although naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships--larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction when war broke out in 1939. The war would hasten the battleship's decline, but not before producing dramatic moments at sea around the globe: the hunt for the Bismarck, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, the defeat of the Graf Spee, and the earth-shattering bombardments on D-Day. Peter C. Smith recounts these and other stirring episodes of naval combat with verve and authority.
- ISBN10 0811735141
- ISBN13 9780811735148
- Publish Date 4 October 2008 (first published 4 August 2008)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stackpole Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English