Battleship

by Willmott, H. P.

• ISBN13: 9780304358106
• ISBN10: 030435810X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

Original and controversial approach to popular subject

Author Biography

H. P. Willmott is a visiting lecturer with Greenwich Maritime Institute, the University of Greenwich, and The Institute for the Study of War and Society, De Montfort University.

Table of Contents

Philippine Waters	7	(3)
Origins, Early Years and Arms Races	10	(43)
The First World War	53	(51)
The Inter-War Period: Limitation, Reconstruction and the New	104	(50)
The Second World War, 1939-1945	154	(59)
The Last Goodbye	213	(19)
Maps	232	(77)
Appendices
1 The battleships and battlecruisers of the dreadnought era	238	(6)
2 The dreadnought designs 1904--1905	244	(1)
3 Principle characteristics of the Dreadnought and Invincible	245	(1)
4 The major powers at sea 1 August 1914	246	(1)
5 Heligoland 28 August 1914	247	(1)
6 The Falklands 8 December 1914	248	(1)
7 Dogger Bank 24 January 1915	249	(2)
8 The Battle of Jutland 31 May--1 June 1916: orders of battle	251	(4)
9 The Allied arrival at Constantinopolis November 1918	255	(1)
10 The internment of German warships in the Firth of Forth 21 November 1918	256	(2)
11 Battleships and battlecruisers lost during and after the First World War	258	(2)
12 The last generation: Europe's built and unbuilt	260	(2)
13 Japanese and American capital ship construction after 1937	262	(1)
14 Battles and orders of battle: Eastern Solomons to the Philippine Sea August 1942 to June 1944	263	(4)
15 The Battle of Leyte Gulf 22--28 October 1944	267	(3)
16 Capital ship losses during the Second World War	270	(2)
17 The world's battleships and battlecruisers 1905-1998	272	(37)
Notes	309	(18)
Selected bibliography	327	(4)
Index	331	(21)
Acknowledgements	352