British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. by Friedman, Norman - 2009

Naval Institute Press, 2009-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.2000 11.5000 9.9000.

Naval Institute Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 1591140811 . Slight shelf wear to the edges of the book and dust jacket.; 11.5 X 9.9 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages .

E-298: Naval Institute Press. Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 2009. 320 pgs. Illustrated throughout. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Noted historian Norman Friedman provides the first detailed study of the Royal Navy's destroyer from its predecessors from the 1880s to the 1930s, and its use in both World Wars. He shows how the Royal Navy developed the torpedo and its surface carrier--the destroyer--as both an offensive and defensive naval weapon. Friedman also discusses the influence the British exerted on foreign navies, including the American and Japanese fleets, destroyer design and tactics, and the British use of U. S. -supplied destroyers during World War II. The book is… Read More