The Battleship Builders
Johnston, Ian2014
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. This title charts the rise of the large industrial conglomerates that were key to this success, looks at their reaction to fast-moving technical changes, and analyses the politics of funding this vast national effort, both before and during the Great War.
Main title:
The Battleship Builders / by Ian Johnston & Ian Buxton.
Imprint:
Barnsley : Seaforth, 2014.
Collation:
352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781848320932 (hbk)
Dewey class:
338.4'76238252'0941'0904338.4762623.8252
Language:
English
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BRN:
1746297
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