Fleets of World War II

by Worth, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781885119742
• ISBN10: 1885119747
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Sarpedon Pub

Summary

For decades, readers interested in naval history have had their choices limited to expensive, multi-volume works written for specialists. Now, for the first time, a single major book covers the entire scope of the navies of World War II. This comprehensive survey of naval strengths is a valuable acquisition for experts in the field while at the same time an accessible and fascinating work for general readers.

Fleets of World War II, packed with data and illustrated throughout, is not a simple list of ships, but an examination of those ships and the fleets they served. Unlike most ship references, it goes beyond the statistics to provide astute, practical analysis. Japan built the world's largest battleships with guns bigger than anything in the Allied arsenal -- but was bigger in fact better? The British launched a wartime flurry of ship production -- but did they build the ships they needed for victory? Current references skirt such questions or bury them beneath strings of stark measurements. Fleets of World War II dispels the clutter, providing a straightf

Author Biography

Richard Worth, a freelance writer and contributor to the Naval Gazette, has won the Award for Excellence in Military History from the Association of the United States Army. He lives in Florida

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Explanatory Notes	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
The World Not Yet At War	p. ix
Albania	p. 1
Argentina	p. 1
Austria	p. 3
Belgium	p. 3
Bolivia	p. 3
Brazil	p. 3
Bulgaria	p. 6
Chile	p. 6
China	p. 8
Colombia	p. 11
Costa Rica	p. 12
Cuba	p. 12
Czechoslovakia	p. 12
Denmark	p. 13
Dominican Republic	p. 15
Ecuador	p. 15
Egypt	p. 15
El Salvador	p. 16
Estonia	p. 16
Ethiopia	p. 16
Finland	p. 16
France	p. 20
Germany	p. 40
Great Britain	p. 75
Greece	p. 134
Guatemala	p. 137
Haiti	p. 137
Honduras	p. 137
Hungary	p. 137
Iceland	p. 137
Iran	p. 137
Iraq	p. 138
Italy	p. 139
Japan	p. 164
Latvia	p. 215
Lebanon	p. 215
Liberia	p. 215
Lithuania	p. 215
Luxembourg	p. 215
Mexico	p. 215
Monaco	p. 216
Mongolia	p. 216
The Netherlands	p. 216
Nicaragua	p. 226
Norway	p. 226
Panama	p. 229
Paraguay	p. 229
Peru	p. 229
Poland	p. 230
Portugal	p. 232
Romania	p. 234
San Marino	p. 236
Saudi Arabia	p. 236
Soviet Union	p. 236
Spain	p. 260
Sweden	p. 264
Syria	p. 269
Thailand	p. 269
Turkey	p. 271
United States	p. 273
Uruguay	p. 333
Venezuela	p. 333
Yugoslavia	p. 333
Select Bibliography	p. 337
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