The modern battleship era began with the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906. Battleships were the biggest and most complicated things built by human hand and they became symbols of national prestige. Despite their crippling costs, these mighty ships were built by many of the world's navies and many remain household names. The losses of the Hood, Bismarck, Yamato and Arizona still echo through the decades because of their fascinating stories. The era of the dreadnought lasted little more than 40 years. By then, these majestic warriors of the sea were overshadowed by the dominance of air power. A few lingered on, but the golden age of the battleship was over. Naval authors, Richard Hough, has written this history of the dreadnoughts illustrated with photos and drawings which should also be useful as a reference source as well as a history of the "big-gun" era.

Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship

History

HOUGH,Richard

Military

Macmillan

The Battle of Britain: The Triumph of the R. A. F. Fighter Pilots

Children's Books

Louis & Victoria: The first Mountbattens Hardcover - 1974 by Richard Alexander Hough (Author)

Louis & Victoria: The first Mountbattens

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional Canada

Hutchinson

Captain Bligh and Mr Christian: The Men and Mutiny

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Naval Battles Of The Twentieth Century

The major naval powers: Britain, America, Russia and Japan have all played a part in the theatre of war at sea over the last one hundred years. This book is a detailed study of the bloody and tragic battles that took place and of the shifting pattern in the status of the naval powers and its effect on our history today.In 1905, when this book begins, there occupied in the Far East the first major engagement between ironclad fleets, the Battle of Tsu-Shima which decided the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war in Japan's favour. What follows are mighty sea battles which took place in our century, graphically constructed for the reader. Victories, defeats and mutinies at sea, from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, are all recorded in sometimes, horrific detail. This is a moving memory, as our century draws to a close, of battles that we shall never see the like of again.

Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

The blind Horn's hate: Cape Horn and the uttermost south

Arrow Books

Captain Bligh and Mr Christian : The Men and the Mutiny

Australia & Oceania

Arrow

Recreates the events that led to the mutiny aboard the Bounty and relates the fate of the individual mutineers

The Bounty (movie tie-in)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Penguin??Books

The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918

<p>The contest between the German and British navies during World War I was the greatest naval conflict in history. In this volume, Richard Hough presents a vivid and detailed account of this sea war, beginning with the build-up to war and ending with Germany's capitulation at the end of 1918. As much a history of men as of guns and ships, this contest pitted England's Winston Churchill, an arrogant but hard-working leader; the influential ex-First Sea Lord "Jacky" Fisher; and Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet Sir John Jellicoe against Germany's autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm and the men under his command. When war broke out, in August of 1914, Britain had ruled the seas, almost uncontested, for nearly 100 years and boasted the biggest, most heavily gunned battleship in the world, the Dreadnought. German submarines and floating mines put this supremacy to the test, and forced British naval leaders to devise techniques, such as the convoy, to combat German technology. Hough describes the war's major and minor batttles--fought in the Falklands, the North Sea, and the Dardanelles--and especially its climax, the 1916 Battle of Jutland, an indecisive confrontation that bitterly disappointed the Royal Navy. Among the many insights and interpretations that Hough brings to this work is his conclusion that the Royal Navy's defeat of the Kriegsmarine was the prime factor in the surrender of Central Powers' land forces at the end of 1918. With vivid portraits of historic figures, stories of behind-the-scenes political battles, and numerous maps and photographs, The Great War at Sea offers a lively, authoritative account of a dramatic era of naval history.</p>

Oxford University Press

The Ace of Clubs: A History of the Garrick

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Trafalgar Square Publishing

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