Us Heavy Cruisers 1943-75: Wartime and Post-War Classes

by Mark Stille and Paul Wright

US Heavy Cruisers provides a detailed, illustrated look at the wartime and post-war-built heavy cruiser classes of the US Navy of World War II.

Fast and heavily armed, the Baltimore class was an evolution of the heavy cruiser designs from before World War II, but without the limitations imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty. Versatile vessels, the heavy cruisers of the Baltimore class, and their successors in the Oregon City and Des Moines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178200632X
• ISBN13: 9781782006329
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 9.5"