Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy

ISBN-13: 9780367301996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 409 str.

Robert L. O'Connell

Opis

Sacred Vessels is an irreverent account of the modern battleship and its place in American naval history from the sinking of the coal-fired Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf in 1991.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction: A Fatal Vision -- In the Beginning: Traditions of the Naval World -- Upon This Rock: The Technological Revolution and the Prophet Mahan -- Crusaders in Blue and the Grail of Seapower -- Sacred Vessel: The Dreadnought -- The Evil Below . . . and Above -- Trial by Fire: Battle in the North Sea -- Crisis of Faith: Protecting the North Atlantic -- Martyrdom: Dreadnoughts in the Wake of Versailles -- Requiem: The Washington Naval Conference -- Life After Death: Rehabilitating the Dreadnought -- Conclusion: Vampires of Seapower -- Appendix

O autorze

Robert L. O'Connell is Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. Dr. O'Connells first book was Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression. He is a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, for which he has written numerous articles and essays.