Preston, Anthony, — Battleships.

NY, Crescent, (1982). 2nd Eng ed. VG in VG DJ. The battleship dominated the oceans for less than a century but left a legacy of action and power. The dreadnought was at the. time the most complex mobile creation of mankind, developing from the ship-of-line into the line-of-battleship, through the tech earthquake which ushered in iron plating, explosive shells and steam propulsion within only 10 years.