AND EVEN MORE FUN!
I've long been a collector of naval reference books, having most of
Conway's and
Jane's, and a host of others besides. One of my longtime favorites has been
Conway's
Warship series. I have some of the original quarterly magazines, but by far the best way to get them is in the annual compilation books. I have about half of them, but some have always been quite expensive. Last week, however, I found a copy of Volume IV for just $30 USD, and it came in the mail today! WOOHOO!
This volume comprises Quarterly issues #13-16, and has articles on the development of radar in the Royal Navy (1935-1945), US Flight-Deck Cruiser designs, with illustrations by the great John Roberts; The Design and Development Of The Battleship
Dreadnought, by D K Brown (I already have Roberts' Anatomy Of The Ship volume on
Dreadnought, but every little bit helps); The Design Of the 1876 armoured cruiser HMS
Inflexible, also by Brown; and most importantly a series of articles on the pre-
Dreadnought Royal Soveriegn class battleships of 1889, by R A Burt himself! I've read his book on battleships from 1889-1905 in the library, but to buy a copy is hideously expensive. This will do in a pinch, though, as
Warship and the US
Warship International issues do have articles on other pre-dreads. Of course the book also has a large number of other articles. These are just the ones that interest me at the moment.
Needless to say I'm looking through it right now.
