Title: The thunder of the guns; a century of battleships.
Authors: Macintyre, Donald G. F. W.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Year: 1960
Subjects: Battleships; Naval history; Naval battles
Contents: The origin of the modern battleship -- Turret and ram -- Quick-firing gun and torpedo -- Steam comes of age -- The rising sun -- Mines and close blockade -- Sound and fury -- Round the world to disaster -- Dreadnought -- Battleship heyday -- Dogger Bank and Dardanelles -- Battle fleets engage -- Escape of the high seas fleet -- The birth of naval air power -- A lion brought to bay -- Twilight of the battleship -- The battle of Leyte -- overture -- The end of a navy -- Ichabod -- the glory has departed.