Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945
by Buxton, Ian
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About This Item
London: Seaforth Publishing, 2008. 2nd edition. As New. quarto. dust jacket 256pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., plans, diags., notes, bibliog., index, Revised & updated edition. ÔIn the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor - indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was overÕ
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Reprint of the ed. published by World Ship Society, Kendal, Eng. Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76285
- Title
- Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945
- Author
- Buxton, Ian
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- Seaforth Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- quarto
- Bookseller catalogs
- Naval Reference;
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