The history of
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Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past.
This exciting account starts with the Greek and Roman sail-and-oar propelled galleys of the Mediterranean. Following sections show Viking ships that navigated Europe's Atlantic coastlines, galleons of the Spanish Armada, eighteenth and nineteenth-century square-rigged warships, and the warships of the twentieth-century navies of Britain, Japan, and the United States.