The Eclipse of the Big Gun: Warships, 1906-45 (History of the Ship)

by Robert Gardiner

Series: Conway's History of the Ship (9)

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Capitani Romani class cruiser

Cybele class mine destructor vessel

Italian monitor Faà di Bruno

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This volume - the first in an ambitious series - chronicles the traditional capital ship's challenge to the development of artillery at sea, its political check with the inter-war naval treaties, and its defeat at the hands of air power in the battles of the Second World War.

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