ISBN10: 0813311160, ISBN13: 9780813311166, [publisher: Westview Pr] Hardcover First Edition First edition/printing. Hardcover. xiv+ 409 pp. with index, illustrated. Fine (bit of foxing to the edges of the text block. In near fine dust jacket with tiny flaws to the extremities. A unique, irrevernt account of the modern battleship and its place in American naval history, from the 1898 sinking of the coal-fired Maine to the deployment of the cruise missle-armed Missouri in the Persian Guilf in 1991. The author concludes that the battleship was never in fact an effective weapon of war even though the would initially was mesmerized by the revolutionary design of the "Dreadnought" in 1903. The ships' actions in WWI were inconclusive and in WWII, the U.S. Navy relied more on the aircraft carrier.
[Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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Westview Pr 1991 First edition Hardcover Fine in near fine jacket First edition/printing. Hardcover. xiv+ 409 pp. with index, illustrated. Fine (bit of foxing to the edges of the text block. In near fine dust jacket with tiny flaws to the extremities. A unique, irrevernt account of the modern battleship and its place in American naval history, from the 1898 sinking of the coal-fired Maine to the deployment of the cruise missle-armed Missouri in the Persian Guilf in 1991. The author concludes that the battleship was never in fact an effective weapon of war even though the would initially was mesmerized by the revolutionary design of the "Dreadnought" in 1903. The ships' actions in WWI were inconclusive and in WWII, the U.S. Navy relied more on the aircraft carrier.

Westview Pr (short Disc), Date: 1991. First edition. Hardcover. vg/vg. octavo. 409pp A very nice copy in dust jacket. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. In a brodart protective wrapper. 1991. Westview Pr (short Disc) ISBN 0813311160 9780813311166 [US]

Westview Pr (Short Disc), Date: 1991-11. Hardcover. Good. 1991. Westview Pr (Short Disc) ISBN 0813311160 9780813311166 [US]