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Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia [Hardcover]

M. J. Whitley (Author)
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Encyclopedic in scope, this single-volume reference is devoted to the one hundred battleships that served or were under construction in World War II. The handsome work details and illustrates the design and construction of each class of battleship with complete histories for each ship.

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MJ Whitley is the author of numerous naval titles (Destroyers of World War Two, German Capital Ships of World War Two, and many more), and the acknowledged expert on the ships of the Second World War. He died in 2000. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Whitley being Whitley, Nov 11 2001
This review is from: Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
I love the way Whitley compresses it all into one volume that won't chew a hole in your wallet. This is not the last word in battleship references, but it's among the best first words you can find. The one weakness is in its illustrations. Modelers can pass this one by. The line drawings look like the author did them himself, out of necessity--which is actually the case. And there are no armor schematics. However, Whitley goes beyond where other references (like Conway's) grind to a halt, and he goes to the trouble of describing the armor layout rather than simply slapping statistics onto the page. What it lacks in detail, it makes up for with its handiness and broad scope. I'm aware of its limitations, especially where the author was trying to pry information out of Russian and Japanese sources, but I find myself getting plenty of use out of it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on Battleships, Aug 25 2000
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This review is from: Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
This is clearly the best book I have seen on battleships. The content level compared to cost was good enough that I ordered the authors books on cruisers and destroyers without seeing them.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Awfully brief for an Encylcopedia, July 19 2000
This review is from: Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
M. J. Whitley does his best to describe the world's capital ships of the WWII era but just does not devote enough material to adequately cover the rebuilt ships from the WWI era, the new designs laid down and completed in the 1930's and 1940's, and the designs planned but not laid down or completed. As with his book on Aircraft Carrier Development, the line drawings are crude and not particuarly accurate. Mr. Whitley includes descriptions of the Soviet dreadnoughts laid down in 1938-39-40 (Sovietskii Soyuz class) but indicates nothing about the U. S. Montana class, which were the first US design to be wider than the locks of the Panama Canal. Overall, the material contained here can be found to much better effect in other references.
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