Sacred vessels : the cult of the battleship and the rise and the U.S. Navy /

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. With provocative insight and wit, Robert O�...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: O'Connell, Robert L. (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2177219
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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
  • The Washington Naval Conference
  • Life after death : rehabilitating the dreadnought
  • Conclusion : vampires of seapower.