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What books about ships would you recommend ? I have just finished DK Browns set on RN warships and wondering what to get next ?

Thanks and please don't just list hardback sets that are out of print and cost 100s !

warship international volumes are really good, but outside of them and the obligatory Conways and Janes encyclopedias, my own library consist mostly of russian books about soviet era.

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Before you go spending tons of money on books I would delve through the internet more as well as check out used book stores there is soo much information out there.

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Off the top of my head...

Robert K Massie: Castles of Steel, Dreadnought.
John Tolland: Infamy
Nathaniel Philbrick: In the Heart of the Sea.
D K Brown: The Royal Navy and the Falklands War.
Norman Friedman's many books.

QFT.

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This one in particular
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Warship-De ... 0831760826

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I am not familiar with that one...... is it like US destroyers but for more then just one navy or?

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It's a walkthrough of what considerations and factors that goes into designing a warship. It's a bit dated in terms of the exact systems it covers and it has a strictly western view of things, but it's still perfectly applicable.

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Thanks for the replies, How did I know you would end up with a list of NF books.

If you are interested in the Imperial Japanese Navy, I recommend the book: Kaigun, by David Evans and Mark R. Peattie. It is an excellent history of Japan's navy, from its very beginning up until the end of WWII.

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