The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948, Peter C. Smith.

The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-1948, Peter C. Smith.

Built as a First World War battlecruiser, the Renown survived to become one of the most important British warships of the Second World War. Making extensive use of the memories of the crewmen who served in her, this book tells the tale of a fast, happy, but vulnerable ship that despite her thin battlecruiser armour surivied to play a major part in the most British naval successes, especially in the Mediterranean.
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