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Fighting Ships 1850-1950

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781847244161

Price: £25

ON SALE: 3rd July 2008

Genre: Humanities / History / Military History

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Fighting Ships 1850-1950 presents a stunning collection of 150 large-scale paintings, drawings, photographs and ship plans that tell the story of naval warfare from the first iron and steam warships to the deadly U-boats and aircraft carriers of the Second World War. Over these 100 years, the most significant naval engagements are dramatically depicted in striking detail – the bombardment of Sveaborg during the Crimean war, the battles of Tsushima and Jutland, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the D-Day landings, as well as the Japanese surrender – revealing the glory and exhilaration of the last great age of marine warfare. Arranged chronologically, the ships illustrated include HMS Warrior, the first iron-hulled, heavily armoured warship; the mighty HMS Dreadnought; the battleship Aurora which ignited the Russian revolution; the Graf Spee, under attack on the River Plate; the formidable German battle cruiser Bismarck; the British aircraft carriers HMS Argus and Illustrious, and the Japanese Akagi, amongst many others.
This remarkable collection not only showcases some of the greatest naval artists of the period, including John Wilson Carmichael, Gustave Bourgain, McClelland Barclay, Kobayashi Kiyochika, William Lionel Wyllie, and the official British war artist Richard Eurich, but also features powerful photographs, often taken by the sailors themselves. Each image is accompanied by Sam Willis’s expert commentary, shedding light on the key naval conflicts of the era, the breathtaking complexity of the modern warship – as well as life and death on board ship for the ordinary sailor.

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'Outstanding quality of reproduction ... Willis accompanies the images with incisive text' Navy News.
Navy News
'Its large format enables the reader to enjoy the 150 stunning images ... those who were impressed by the glorious artwork in the first volume will be pleased that it is all here again too ... each illustration is accompanied by Sam Willis's excellent descriptions, which are well researched and presented and highly readable. It is a gem for anyone who loves naval history' BBC Who Do You Think You Are Magazine.
Who Do You Think You Are Magazine