The Aircraft Carrier Story 1908-1945

By Guy Robbins

Operating from seaborne bases and able to function in most weather, aircraft carriers enabled planes to attack with a freedom that changed the conduct of battle at sea forever. A valuable history... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304353086
• ISBN13: 9780304353088
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

nice book but ..

.. i didn't like the way it's organized. for each major navy (US,UK and Japan), the author writes the story of the evolution of its own carrier project. so the reader goes into the 20s, the 30s and the 40s three times. i'd have probably liked a more time-based approach, maybe with sidebars or other ways of diving into each navy peculiarities, instead. anyway, the book is very interesting and explains very well the trial and error process that generated the carriers that fought WWII. i'd like to read a follow-up to this book, going from 1945 to present time.