Author picture

Leo Marriott

Author of Titanic

57 Works 791 Members 4 Reviews

About the Author

Leo Marriott has written numerous books on aviation, naval and military subjects including Treaty Cruisers, Catapult Aircraft, Jets at Sea, Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Early Jet Bombers 1944-1954 and Early Jet Fighters 1944-1954; The Soviet Union and Europe. He is now show more retired after a fifty-year career as an air traffic controller but still maintains his pilot's licence. Apart from aviation and naval history, his other interests include sailing, photography and painting. show less

Includes the names: Leo Marriot, LEO MARRIOT, Leo Marroitt

Works by Leo Marriott

Titanic (1997) 195 copies
80 Years of Civil Aviation (1997) 16 copies
STRUCTURES (2007) 11 copies
Lighthouses (1999) 11 copies
ABC British Airways Book (1993) 10 copies
Warships (2001) 10 copies
Type 42 (1985) 10 copies
Type 22 (1986) 9 copies
Britannia 767 (v. 6) (1991) 7 copies
Hmc Invincible (1990) 5 copies
Bae 146 in Europe (1990) 4 copies
World War II Aircraft (2011) 3 copies
Need for speed - Cars (2009) 3 copies
What's Left of Nelson (1995) 3 copies
West Country Warships (2014) 2 copies
SPORTS CARS (2007) 1 copy

Tagged

Common Knowledge

Gender
male

Members

Reviews

5 reviews
Cannon porn. Picked up off the remainder table; long on pictures, but has a few interesting facts in the text. Includes depictions of various named medieval and Renaissance bombards – Faule Mette (800mm bore), Dulle Griet (640mm), Mons Meg (510mm) and The Tsar Cannon (890mm). While the others were actually fired a few times, there’s no evidence the Tsar Cannon ever was; the carriage it sits on, while very decorative, could not have actually been used to transport it, and the cannonballs show more it’s displayed with don’t fit. The 19th and 20th centuries produced the Armstrong 450mm (17.72 inch) naval cannon, the largest weapon ever mounted on a ship; the compressed-air powered 15-inch Zalinski Dynamite gun, which actually got a few shots off during the Spanish-American war; the Krupp 420mm howitzer that dealt with the Belgian Liege forts in WWI; the Royal Navy 18-inch gun that had the strange non-traversable mounting on the monitors General Wolfe and Lord Clive and which has the distinction of engaging a military target at the longest range ever – 36000 yards at Ostend; the 800mm Schwere Gustav railroad gun that capsized a Soviet destroyer in Sevastopol harbor with a near miss; and the 460mm guns on Musashi and Yamato that never engaged an enemy ship. There are some pictures of Cold War era Soviet weapons I had never heard of – the 2A3 406mm SP howitzer and the 2B1 420mm SP gun. This last was apparently rushed into production as a counter to the US M65 atomic cannon, and was a failure; the recoil ripped the sprockets off the tracks every time it was fired.

It would have been nice to have more details on cannon construction and employment, but the book isn’t really directed toward an audience that would be interested in that. Might be of interest to the military modeler.
show less
This was a book I used as a reference for a college paper I was writing on air disaster history. It's fully illustrated with plenty of photos. Tons of information. A great reference.
Kniha v původním vydání se setkala u čtenářů s mimořádným úspěchem. Není divu, její klady jsou patrné na první pohled. Jsou to především unikátní dobové fotografie a k nim často paralelně přiřazené fotografie soudobé, umožňující vzájemné porovnání vzhledu klíčových míst, kde se odehrávalo dějství Dne D v červnu 1944. Moderní fotografie jsou velice kvalitní, jejich autorem je zkušený pilot a fotograf - a jeden z autorů této knihy. Senzaci show more dále představují dobové plány, bojová schémata a precizně vypracované mapy, které čtenářům dovolují promítnout si jednotlivé fáze nelítostných bitev v Normandii do nejmenšího detailu. Velice přitažlivé na publikaci je i přehledné rozřazení textu do 10 tematicky ucelených kapitol, které spolu s fotografiemi tvoří důmyslně sestavený celek, který sugestivně navozuje atmosféru bojů. Za pozornost i doklad profesionálního přístupu autorů ke knize určitě stojí třeba i hezká hříčka, jakou je paginace na sudých stranách, k níž bylo použito s
oučasné značení trasy Voie de la Liberte, po níž v severní Francii postupovala Pattonova 3. americká armáda a která byla vytyčena na její památku v roce 1947.
show less

You May Also Like

Associated Authors

Statistics

Works
57
Members
791
Popularity
#32,199
Rating
½ 3.6
Reviews
4
ISBNs
101
Languages
5

Charts & Graphs