Despatches from the Front: Capital Ships at War 1939-1945, compiled John Grehan & Martin Mace.

Despatches from the Front: Capital Ships at War 1939-1945, compiled John Grehan & Martin Mace. 
Reproduces a series of Royal Navy reports covering some of the key battleship actions of the Second World War, including the battle of the River Plate, loss of the Hood, Prince of Wales and Repulse, the sinking of the Bismarck, X-boat attacks on the Tirpitz and the operations of the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. Helps trace the decline of the battleship during the Second World War, a conflict in which direct clashes between battleships were very rare, but air power came to dominate
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