The Lost Battleship

Author : Jenő Rejtő
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502415691
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Battleship written by Jenő Rejtő and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battleship 'Balmoral' has gone missing, although it's not lost at all. Dirty Fred and a group of happy scoundrels 'borrow' it to rescue Tom Leven and his important invention. During their adventures they rescue high-ranking military officers from a sunken ship, impersonate them in their official engagements, avert a military crisis and solve a crime. The novel is a comical crime adventure, written in Jeno Rejto's unique style of understated humour. The author has been likened to a Hungarian P.G. Wodehouse.

Author : Robert M. Farley
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479405574
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battleship Book written by Robert M. Farley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants. Here Robert M. Farley looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power—and sometimes national futility. From Arizona to Yamato, here are more than sixty lavishly illustrated accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship. Separate essays and sidebars look at events and lore that greatly affected battleships.

Author : P. J. Smith
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9780752451572
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Ship SS Waratah written by P. J. Smith and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lost ship SS Waratah

Author : Yoshida Mitsuru
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512089
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battleship Yamato written by Yoshida Mitsuru and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1988-12-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armor and having the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. This classic in the Anatomy of the Ship series contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history. This is followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 600 perspective and three-view drawings, and 30 photographs. Such a handsome and thorough work is guaranteed to impress modelmakers, ship enthusiasts, and naval historians.

Author : Moore Williams Robert
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789359324012
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Warship written by Moore Williams Robert and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lost Warship" is a charming technology fiction novel written by Robert Moore Williams. The novel, set inside the distant future, immerses readers in an interesting galactic journey that mixes aspects of area opera, navy combat, and exploration. Commander John Hanson, an officer inside the United States Space Navy, and his group embark on a unstable task to uncover the destiny of a legendary cruiser, the USAWayne. This mind-blowing vessel vanished all of sudden years ago even as on a project, becoming a image of both satisfaction and intrigue. As Hanson and his group look for the lost battleship in unexplored area, they face a number of unforeseen hurdles, which includes encounters with alien species, political intrigue, and the difficult ruins of a sturdy antique civilization. Throughout their experience, they find the mysteries of the USAWayne's disappearance and face moral and ethical quandaries associated with sophisticated generation and its capability implications. Robert Moore Williams' paintings mixes awe with sophisticated global-constructing to create a vibrant and attractive technology fiction enjoy for readers.

Author : Paul L Stillwell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682475948
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleship Commander written by Paul L Stillwell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now. Battleship Commander explores Lee's life from boyhood in Kentucky through his eventual service as commander of the fast battleships from 1942 to 1945. Paul Stillwell draws on more than 150 first-person accounts from those who knew and served with Lee from boyhood until the time of his death. Said to be down to earth, modest, forgiving, friendly, and with a wry sense of humor, Lee eschewed the media and, to the extent possible, left administrative details to others. Stillwell relates the sequential building of a successful career, illustrating Admiral Lee's focus on operational, tactical, and strategic concerns. During his service in the Navy Department from 1939 to 1942, Lee prepared the U.S. Navy for war at sea, and was involved in inspecting designs for battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, and destroyers. He sent observers to Britain to report on Royal Navy operations during the war against Germany and made plans to send an action team to mainland China to observe conditions for possible later Allied landings there. Putting his focus on the need to equip U.S. warships with radar and antiaircraft guns, Lee was one of the few flag officers of his generation who understood the tactical advantage of radar, especially during night battles. In 1942 Willis Lee became commander of the first division of fast battleships to operate in the Pacific. During that service, he commanded Task Force 64, which achieved a tide-turning victory in a night battle near Guadalcanal in November 1942. Lee missed two major opportunities for surface actions against the Japanese. In June 1944, in the Marianas campaign, he declined to engage because his ships were not trained adequately to operate together in surface battles. In October 1944, Admiral William Halsey's bungled decisions denied Lee's ships an opportunity for combat. Continuing his career of service near the end of the war, Lee, in the summer of 1945, directed anti-kamikaze research efforts in Casco Bay, Maine. While Lee's wartime successes and failures make for compelling reading, what is here in this biography is a balanced look at the man and officer.

Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Penguin Uk
ISBN 13 : 9780141391199
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleship written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Penguin Uk. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wednesday 10 December 1941, the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse.

Author : Craig Martelle
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleship Leviathan written by Craig Martelle and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A derelict warship, ancient but still alive. A small team of humans fighting for all humanity. Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away. It worked. And it didn't. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics behind as monuments to their failure. Humanity spread to the stars and ran headlong into the established races. A new war begins, and no one conducts war better than humanity except for the Blaze Collective. The two go head-to-head while humanity frantically searches for something to give them an advantage. Ancient technology. The derelicts scattered across the galaxy. Gutted and useless. Except for one, hidden in plain sight, close to Earth. Major Declan Payne takes his team aboard to find that the ship is no derelict, and it needs him as much as humanity needs it. Battleship: Leviathan. A Doomsday Weapon whose only goal is peace. Experience the start of a Military Sci-Fi Series from Amazon Bestselling author Craig Martelle. It's perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Jay Allan, and Joshua Dalzelle.

Author : Robert Williams
Publisher : Endymion Press
ISBN 13 : 1531298613
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Warship written by Robert Williams and published by Endymion Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jap bombs rained down, there was a tremendous blast - and a weird thing happened to the Idaho! A fantastisc classic from the era when science fiction was developing, Robert Williams impresses with his monumental work, the Lost Warship!

Author : Robert L. O'Connell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195080068
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Vessels written by Robert L. O'Connell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a broad, historical perspective, the dreadnought represents an archetype, and its history a kind of moral tale. Its awesome size, its formidable presence, and its immense power have gained it tremendous respect, loyalty, and, as Robert O'Connell shows in this myth-shattering book, unwarranted longevity as well. With provocative insight and wit he offers us an irreverent history of the modern battleship and its place in American history, from the sinking of the coal-fueled Maine in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The modern navies were the first of the armed services faced with fundamental and abrupt technological change. The wooden sailing ships that had fought sea battles for nearly two centuries were, in only a few years, rendered obsolete by a veritable tidal wave of innovation. With the deployment of the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought in 1903, the new technology reached its full fruition: the gigantic sleek, steel-clad, many-gunned vessel that would rule the seas (or at least the minds of Naval commanders) for years to come. O'Connell shows how other nations raced to emulate this new prototype (much in the fashion of the nuclear arms race of later decades), usually at the expense of much more effective forms of naval force. He also demonstrates compellingly the dashed expectations for the battleship occasioned by the outbreak of war in 1914. While many anticipated a massive twentieth-century Trafalgar, in actuality dreadnoughts everywhere avoided battle, and when they did fight, the results were most often inconclusive or even irrelevant. With the Battle of Jutland in 1916--the only real naval showdown of the war--the ineffectiveness of the battleship as the pre-eminent weapon of war was made abundantly clear: the German navy scored on only 120 hits out of 3,597 heavy shells fired while the British had an even more dismal showing--100 out of 4,598, or a hit ratio of 2.17%. Yet, in spite of this display of impotence, the world's great naval yards continued to turn out the huge vessels. O'Connell observes that even after the heart of the American fleet was sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the almost superstitious faith in the battleship insured its survival. While they have never played a decisive role in the outcome of any modern war, they have continued to be resurrected and refurbished--even equipped with cruise missles--right up to the present day. Sacred Vessels is more than the unmasking of a false idol of naval history. It is a cautionary tale about the often unacknowledged influence of human faith, culture, and tradition on the exceedingly important, costly, and suppossedly rational process of national defense. Not only is it a gripping tale well-told, it is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the dynamics involved in the arming of nations.