search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Battleship
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction to the Revised Edition
xiii
The Sailing Navy
1
10
French Challenge
11
8
Riposte
19
6
Battle Proof
25
12
The Iron Thickens
37
7
Turrets
44
11
Torpedoes
55
5
Naval Supremacy in the 1870s
60
8
Tactics and Design: the 1870s
68
9
Ships of the 1870s
77
15
Actions, Accidents and Other Alarms
92
11
The Development of the Battleship
103
19
Usage and Abusage: 1880s and 1890s
122
22
The Age of Battleships
144
18
Gunnery Renaissance, in Practice and Anger
162
21
Fire Control and the Dreadnought
183
29
War
212
36
Challenge from the New World
248
19
The End of the Battleship
267
24
Appendix
291
9
Glossary
300
2
References, Notes and Bibliography
302
15
Index
317
6
Index of Ships' Names
323