Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards p

The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping ou

The launch in 1606 of HMS Dreadnought, the worlds's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped ou

A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recru

First published in 1991, this book offers a thorough examination of the decline of heavy industry in industrialised countries in the West, which focuses on prob