Aircraft carriers - volume 1 (Potomac Books Inc)

This book offers a definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. This two-volume work describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations and explains their impact. In Volume 1, Norman Polmar shows carriers in action, from World War One, to the end of World War Two. The aircraft, the commanders and pilots (British, German, American and Japanese) are described and illustrated in over 200 photographs. Volume 2, which will cover 1945 to 2005 will be published in Autumn 2006. It is revised and updated edition of a kanon work, previously published aby Doubleday in 1969.