The Encyclopedia of Warships
Subtitle: From World War II to the Present Day
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: October 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781592236275
Subjects: Reference; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; Military; Warships; Military - Pictorial; History / Military / Naval; Sale Books; Encyclopedias; 20th century; 21st century
First sentence: LONG BEFORE, the battleships' place as the principal capital ships of a major navy had been usurped by the aircraft carrier, whose effectiveness as a weapon of war had first been demonstrated by Britain's Royal Navy in November 1940, when carrier-based, torpedo-armed aircraft crippled the Italian battle fleet at Taranto and assured British naval supremacy in the crucial Mediterranean theatre.