Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1: 1909-1945
by Norman Polmar
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Author: Norman PolmarEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-24
ISBN: 1574886630
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Book Review: Great Aircraft Carrier Reference
Summary: 4 Stars
I have several books by Norman Polmar, including this one. I have always found them accurate and detailed. This book covers the essential period of carrier development from the early days when carriers were basically from converted transports or cruiser hulls to full-fledged ships in their own rights including the famed Essex class carriers and beyond. The ships discussed are naval legends...Enterprise, Yorktown, Lexington and more. These were the ships that made not just naval history but changed history against the onslaught of Hitler's National Socialists and Imperial Japan.
Summary of Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1: 1909-1945
Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar's revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare.Volume I provides a comprehensive analysis of carrier developments and warfare in the first half of the twentieth century, and examines the advances that allowed the carrier to replace the battleship as the dominant naval weapons system. Polmar gives particular emphasis to carrier operations from World War I, through the Japanese strikes against China in the 1930s, to World War II in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, and Pacific theaters. It begins with French inventor Cl?ment Ader's remarkably prescient 1909 description of an aircraft carrier. The book then explains how Britain led the world in the development of aircraft-carrying ships, soon to be followed by the United States and Japan. While ship-based aircraft operations in World War I had limited impact, they foreshadowed the aircraft carriers built in the 1920s and 1930s. The volume also describes the aircraft operating from those ships as well as the commanders who pioneered carrier aviation.
Aircraft Carriers has benefited from the technical collaboration of senior carrier experts Captain Eric M. Brown and General Minoru Genda as well as noted historians Robert M. Langdon and Peter B. Mersky. Aircraft Carriers is heavily illustrated with more than 400 photographs-some never before published-and maps.
Volume II, which is forthcoming from Potomac Books in the winter 2006-2007 (ISBN 978-1-57488-665-8), will cover the period 1946 to the present.
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