Publisher's Synopsis
Jane's Fighting Ships, the World's premier naval reference source has been published annually since 1897. To mark the centenary of this remarkable title, Jane's War at Sea 1897-1997 reviews the full range of technological developments charted in the pages of Jane's Fighting Ships.
From the beginning of the 20th century, when Britain was the world's greatest naval power, through the World Wars and into the long era of American maritime supremacy, Jane's War at Sea also reveals the latest ideas in warship construction: radical designs which may make many of today's warships as obsolete as the Victorian Royal Navy's battleships originally described by Fighting Ships' founder, Fred T. Jane.
Jane's War at Sea 1897-1997 is profusely illustrated with photographs and line drawings from Jane's unique archives. The text is written by two international authoraties on naval warfare, Bernard Ireland and Dr Eric Grove.
