This volume - the first in an ambitious series - chronicles the traditional capital ship's challenge to the development of artillery at sea, its political check with the inter-war naval treaties, and its defeat at the hands of air power in the battles of the Second World War.
1906-1945 saw the power of artillery at sea challenged by torpedo boats and submarines, and later by aircraft. Taking the decline of the all-big-gun battleship as its main theme, this book charts the development of all warship types of the period, from the aircraft carrier to small costal vessels.)

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