Just finished reading Haynes' newest "workshop manual" on the HMS Dreadnought, and it's terribly mediocre. They've done some pretty darn good naval titles in the past, but this one is too superficial to be a useful reference. Lots of excellent illustrations, and some interesting period documents, but they've tried to cram way too much into 156 pages. The sections on fire control, armor protection, and ship design and especially disappointing. It's better than their U-boat manual from 2014, but that's not saying a whole lot.
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