John Arthur Roberts
Auteur de The Battlecruiser Hood
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de John Arthur Roberts
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- Date de naissance
- 1945-01-16
- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 45
- Membres
- 708
- Popularité
- #35,797
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 81
- Langues
- 1
Supplemented by numerous tables and generously illustrated with photographs and line drawings, Raven and Roberts's book is an invaluable technical resource for anyone interested in the subject. Yet where the authors fall short is in detailing the war service of these vessels. Such coverage is actually provided in the early chapters, which describe the cruisers that served in the First World War. This makes the absence of similar coverage for their successors in the Second World War — the titular focus of the work — particularly glaring. Readers seeking a more comprehensive analysis would do well to supplement this book with Norman Friedman's more recent [b:British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After|10804709|British Cruisers Two World Wars and After|Norman Friedman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347417821s/10804709.jpg|15718119] which, while not as well supplemented with pictures, nonetheless provides a more useful narrative analysis of its subject.… (plus d'informations)