WARRIOR TO DREADNOUGHT: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1860-1905
Published by Caxton Editions. 1st thus. 2003
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. The technological changes which transformed warships from the fully-rigged broadside ironclads of the mid-nineteenth century, through the centre battery ships, early turret vessels and barbette ships, to the turbine-powered Dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers which were to fight in the First World War. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and diagrams.
Minor mark to front endpaper else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.
ISBN: 1840675292
Stock no. 1828109
