Chronicles the traditional capital ship's challenge to the development of artillery at sea, its political check with the inter-war naval treaties, and its defeat at the hands of air power in the battles of the Second World War.
Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45
- Details
- By: Robert Gardiner (editor)
- ME Naval Non-Fiction - General
- Title: Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45
- Series: Conway's History of the Ship
- First Published by: Conway Maritime Press Ltd
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 2001
- ISBN-10: 0785814140
- ISBN-13: 978-0785814146