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Date Posted: 09:48:37 01/01/11 Sat
Author: bill
Author Host/IP: 71.250.59.198
Subject: Re: AARP........Why?
In reply to: JMcEnaney 's message, "Re: AARP........Why?" on 19:43:32 12/31/10 Fri

Norman Friedman

US Battleships an illustrated design History

Naval institute press
annapolis maryland
21402

They did a series of these on various types of naval craft
and Friedman has written many other books on naval craft as well.

If you are really interested in naval craft you can write to the Naval institute press for a free list of the books available which numbered over 250 at the time this was published in the eighties.

I happened on this one in a used book shop which also sold new books that were special ordered. The person who had ordered it never picked it up so it was available for sale below the price it would have cost him had he picked it up.
What interested me was that it covered the developent from the civil war monitor types ( with somewhat sketchy info ) through the last ( Iowa ) class Battleships and the never built Montana class cancelled during the war so that other craft could be built that were more urgently necessary.

Not only does it cover the design process but it aqlso gives much information on why things were done the way they were including political reasons, the effect of foreign development and treaty restrictions during the twenties and thirties.
In that area it has some parrallels to what took place during the cold war and present day treaty activities.

As mentioned in this book when the washington treaty that leimeted and reduced battleships amongst the treaty participant was undertaken the country and our citizens as well as many congress persons saw that as having solved the problem of the arms race which of course was not true as both countries that had not been signatories ( germany in particular ) and the Japanese who dropped out of the agreement in the thirties were then not restricted while the US and Britain were still so affected. of course the depression kept most countries from doing much construction but not all and the more milataristic countries where public opinion did not influence choices made by the government did basically what they wanteed once not in the treaty agreement and even signatories could do some development to answer the moves made by non signatories.

Very interesting books , would like to read the other four in this series as wellas maybe some that were not in this group so might try the libraries once I have more tie to do that.

b

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