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Title: Battleships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 by William H., Jr. Garzke, Robert O. Dulin, Thomas G. Webb ISBN: 1-55750-174-2 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As detailed and exacting as can be
Comment: Every major class of battleship is described in meticulous detail. From design to outcome this book has it all.
Be warned, this book also contains extensive technical information, so if you are interested in narrative storytelling look elsewhere. This book is for the true devotee of battleships.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Book!
Comment: Quite a bit of detail about each individual ship organized in sections on a ship-by-ship basis. Lots of good photos and drawings.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you don't have this book, you are NOT a Battleship person
Comment: Bill Garzke and Bob Dulin have outdone themselves again. When I was the structural project leader to direct the hull and armor redesigns for the reactivation of the Battleship NEW JERSEY at Long Beach Naval Shipyard (the planning yard for the Battleships), we used their earlier edition of this book as our general guide. Two members of my design team brought in their personal copies and kept them handy so I could include excerpts from them for official Navy memos and instructions. The Naval archives were sorely lacking detailed chemical and heat treating records of the Class A and Class B armor of the Battleships. A quick phone call to Bill Garzke gave me an armor expert on the west coast that had all the data our designers and welding engineers needed. Thanks, Bill. I owe you one.
The only thing I have found missing from this edition is the fantastic Gibbs & Cox scheme D Battleship that was half Battleship and half Aircraft Carrier and was actually bought by the Soviet Union in WW II, but never built. In this edition, perhaps the most important section is the one devoted to the disasterous incident of turret II on the IOWA where 47 men were killed. The authors go into meticulous detail as to actual facts and almost every conceivable theory as to what caused the deflageration (not an explosion). However, they are properly cautious as not to force their personal opinions on the reader. Yet they give enough detail, including histories of past turret incidents on other Battleships, so the reader can draw his own conclusions. There are a few typos and descrepancies between the text and the illustrations. For example, the text correctly identifies the powder in the propellent bags as D846 where the illustrations identify it as B846. Also, the elevation sketch indicates that the heavily armored turret bustle hatch was blown off when in fact it was the turret bustle hatch ACCESS PLATFORM below the bustle (overhang) that was blown over the side. But these are miniscule descrepancies only an "insider" like me would know (I was tasked to write a repair procedure). All in all, it is unthinkable that any true Battleship historian or lover would be without this book. Actually, both the 1976 and this 1995 edition should be in every Naval Architect's library.
Richard A. Landgraff
DREADNAUGHT CONSULTING
Long Beach, California
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Title: Battleships: Allied Battleships of World War II by William H. Garzke, Thomas G. Webb, Robert O. Dulin ISBN: 0870211005 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 1980 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
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Title: U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman, Alan Raven, A. D., III Baker ISBN: 0870217151 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman, A. D., III Baker ISBN: 0870217186 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: October, 1984 List Price(USD): $67.50 |
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Title: Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix, Linton, Ii Wells, Linton Wells II ISBN: 0870213113 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: The American Battleship by Samuel Loring Morison, Norman Polmar, Steve Gansen ISBN: 0760309892 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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