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Books on Battleships

Choose Other Book Subjects... General Naval History Early Naval History Label Civil War Naval History World War II Naval History Submarine Warfare in World War II Battleships Carriers These are beautiful commemorative books of the battleships. Each book contains hundreds of photos and scores of first had accounts. The books are oversize coffee table style and most have embellished hardcover covers

American Battleships: A Pictorial History of BB-1 to BB-71, with Prototypes Maine and Texas

Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. This book present information on all the battleships that took part in WW II

All the World's Battleships: 1906 to the Present. Written by Ian Sturton this book presents an overview of the battleships of the world.

First hand account of a sailor serving on a battleship.

The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development, 1906-1922

Battleships of the World- 180 entries provide information on all the world battleships.

Dreadnoughts in Camera: Building the Super Dreadnoughts 1905-1920

A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

The explosion aboard the battleship Iowa in 1989 that killed forty-seven crewmen during a routine gunnery exercise is depicted.

An intimate a personal story of the history of the Battleship of Arizona

Blue Water Beat: The Two Lives of the Battleship USS California. The story combines the ship in the interwar navy when it was a showcase of American power, and during World War II when the life of the California was very different.

The story of the battleship fleet that Hitler created and lost.

Battleships of the Bismarck Class: The Bismarck and Tiepitz; Culmination and Finale of German Battleship Construction

The story of German battleship Scharnhorst. This pocket battleship was a deadly threat to Merchant shipping.

Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: The Backbone of the German Surface Forces at the Outbreak of War

The story of the greatest of all German battleships.

All about the Battleship Fuso by Skulski, Janusz

Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World's Biggest Battleship

The story of the sinking of the battleship Yamato- the pride of the Japanese fleet by Yishido Mitsuru