Brian Lavery

Gebundenes Buch

The Last Big Gun

At War & at Sea with HMS Belfast

Beschreibung

As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler's newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast.

Autor

Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Which They Served (2008), Churchill's Navy (2006), and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas (2010). Brian lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9781910860014
• ISBN-10: 1910860018
• Artikelnr.: 42856496