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Super-Battleships of World War I : The Lost Battleships of the Washington Treaty by Angus Konstam (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101472866908

ISBN-139781472866905

eBay Product ID (ePID)6070944873

Product Key Features

Book TitleSuper-Battleships of World War I : the Lost Battleships of the Washington Treaty

Number of Pages48 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / Naval, Military / United States

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes, Tooby, Adam

GenreHistory

AuthorAngus Konstam

Book SeriesNew Vanguard Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.8 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number338

Dewey Decimal623.825209041

Table Of Content(Subject to confirmation) Introduction Design and Development Construction History Capabilities Specifications Further Reading Index

SynopsisAs World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were ageing, and many of them were markedly inferior to the latest American and Japanese battleships. An arms race loomed between the war's victors. In this book naval expert Angus Konstam studies and compares the battleships being designed between 1918 and 1922, which drew on the lessons of World War I. Britain was designing four G3-class 15in-gun battlecruisers, plus four N3 'hyper-dreadnoughts' mounting colossal 18in guns. The US Navy was planning six new South Dakota battleships, carrying an incredible 12 16in guns, plus six Lexington-class battlecruisers. Japan was working on a similar project, and in 1920 the first of four Amagi-class battlecruisers were laid down. However, in 1922 this costly arms race was averted by the Washington Naval Treaty, which halted new battleship construction, and limited the major fleets. These battleships and battlecruisers were mostly cancelled and scrapped, with a few, such as Lexington and Akagi, converted into aircraft carriers. With new colour reconstructions of the G3, H3, South Dakota, Lexington and Amagi classes, this is the first book to study these never-built monster warships., As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were.