U.S. Battleships
Subtitle: An Illustrated Design History
Edition: Reprint Edition
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: March 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781591142478
Description: Naval historians and enthusiasts alike will find U.S. Battleships to be the most comprehensive reference available on the entire development of U.S. battleships, from the Maine and Texas of 1886, through the Montana class of World War II, up to the recommissioned Iowas. Like the other books in Norman Friedman's design-history series, U.S. Battleships is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records.

Friedman, a leading authority of U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts the evolution of each design. Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III have created detailed scale outboard and plan views of each battleship class and of major modifications to many classes. Numerous photographs complement the text.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Key to Battleship Drawings; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Beginnings: The Pre-dreadnoughts; label: 2
title: The All-Big-Gun Ship; label: 3
title: Theodore Roosevelt's Fighting Machine, 1907-09; label: 4
title: The Wyoming and New York Classes, 1910-11; label: 5
title: The Standard Type: Battleships, 1912-17; label: 6
title: Alternatives to the Standard Type; label: 7
title: The Last Dreadnought: The South Dakota Class; label: 8
title: World War One; label: 9
title: The Washington Treaty; label: 10
title: Reconstruction; label: 11
title: Design Studies, 1928-34; label: 12
title: The North Carolina Class; label: 13
title: The South Dakota Class; label: 14
title: The Iowa Class; label: 15
title: The Montana Class; label: 16
title: Battleships at War, 1941-45; label: 17
title: Postwar; title: Appendices; label: A
title: The Monitors; label: B
title: Damage at Pearl Harbor; label: C
title: List of U.S. Battleships; label: D
title: Battleship Data List; title: Notes on Sources; title: Index