The battlecruiser HMS Hood
Subtitle: an illustrated biography, 1916-1941
By: Bruce Taylor ; ill. by Thomas Schmid.
Contributors: Schmid, Thomas, 1964-
Publisher: Chatham Publ.; Naval Institute Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Hood (Battle cruiser); Great Britain. -- Royal Navy.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.; Battle cruisers -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-250) and index.
Table of contents: value: Genesis, design and construction; value: A tour of the ship; value: Glory ship; value: Routine, work and rest; value: Life aboard the Hood in colour; value: Disaster and recovery, 1931-1936; value: War clouds, 1936-1939; value: To war; value: The end of glory; value: Conclusion; value: Appendix 1. Admirals, captains, commanders and chaplains by commission; value: Appendix 2. Scheme of complement of HMS Hood, 12 December 1919; value: Appendix 3. Composition and family attachments of HMS Hood, c. 1934; value: Appendix 4. Daily routines in peace and war; value: Chronology, 1915-1941; value: Roll of honour.