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This is a great looking book and is well published, however the content left something to be desired. This may be an OK intro for the beginner but serious battleship buffs need look else where. The book title is not quite true, a substantial amount of space is devoted to the life of the US Iowa's after WW2. Other battleships like the King George class only rate 2 pages???The Kongo class isn't even mentioned whilst 2 pages are devoted to the Akaga because it was supposed to be a battlecruiser but was turned into an aircraft carrier. Good photos but no line drawings. This offering could have been a whole lot better.well done book on battleships, great for casual reading, this not a technical book but covers all the ship built during this period. great buy for gift for anyone interested naval history.This is the most informative book on Battleships that I have read, if this is your subject of interest then this is a must read.Some ships I had been curious about were shown in this publication. Photographs I had not seen anywhere else.The picture captioned "The Japanese admiral Nagumo ..." is, in fact, picture of admiral Tamon Yamaguchi. The picture captioned "A piece of armour plate from the wreck of the Japanese Yamato" is Shinano's turret face armor, etc.For the price the book is brilliant, I build model kits of ships so this really helps understand more about various ship data !
