Steve Crawford – författare

Battleships and Carriers features 300 of the most significant capital ships to have sailed the seas since the age of sail. These include such famous battleships as Henri Grâce à Dieu in the 16th century, ironclads such as Indianola, Admiral Graf Spee, Bismarck, Iowa, Yamato and Dreadnought. The book also includes the greatest aircraft carriers that served during World War I, such as HMS Furious, and World War II, such as USS Independence, and goes right to the present day, with HMS Prince of Wales, the latest Royal Navy carrier, as well as the USS Gerald R. Ford and Chinese Liaoning carriers. Each of the 300 vessels featured is illustrated with the aid of a superb side-view artwork. This is accompanied by a brief account of its development and service history, as well as a detailed specifications table giving displacement, dimensions, performance, date of launch and armament. Presented in a handy, pocket-book size, arranged alphabetically and with 300 colour illustrations, Battleships and Carriers is an authoritative and accessible reference work, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in military technology and naval history.

A compendium of modern fighting and support vehicles in service all around world, with colour photographs, technical analysis and specification tables. Vehicles featured include main battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled guns, mobile air defence systems and anti-tank platforms. The book also includes logistical back-up vehicles, without which modern armies cannot operate - trucks, tank transporters, engineer vehicles, cranes and lifters and ambulances. On the battlefield main battle tanks are the spearhead of modern armies as well protected, powerfully armed vehicles that work with precision in the worst of circumstances. Each vehicle is illustrated by a colour photograph, with explanatory text and a specifications table. Tanks featured include the American Abrams, German Leopard, British Challenger, French Leclerc, Russian T-90 and Israeli Merkava. As well as the photographs and text entries, each vehicle also has its own specifications table which lists type, weight, powerplant, length, width, height, crew, armament (where applicable) speed and range.

This highly illustrated and informative book is a collection of the most important surface and undersea vessels that served between 1939 and 1945 and each vessel is illustrated by a black and white photograph, accompanying text and specification tables. Surface ships and submarines played a key and vital part in World War II. In the Atlantic the German Navy used its major surface ships, such as the Bismarck, Tirpitz and Graf Spee, as raiders, while under the waves the U-boats sank a total of 222 British merchant ships between September 1939 and March 1940 alone. In the Pacific, combat between groups of American and Japanese carriers decided command of the ocean and the outcome of the naval war in this theatre whilst US submarines sank almost the entire Japanese merchant fleet. The aircraft carrier overtook the battleship as the capital ship and so this book includes the most significant carriers that saw service in the conflict, including the British Ark Royal, American Yorktown and Japanese Kaga. The main battleships of the war are also present: Yamato, Vittorio Veneto, Richelieu and King George V.

A compendium of the world's most important and technologically advanced military surface and under-sea vessels including details on cruisers, destroyers and frigates plus information on the massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers currently afloat around the world. Surface combatants include cruisers, destroyers and frigate - ships that are tasked with combat operations against hostile submarines, surface ships, aircraft, missiles and targets ashore. Also included is the massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers currently in service such as the French carrier Charles de Gaulle, the British HMS Illustrious and the giant carriers of the US Nimitz class, such as the USS George Washington. Submarines include the massively powerful Ohio class ballistic submarines and the Seawolf class attack submarines.The text entries discuss the capabilities of modern naval vessels, such as the ability of ballistic missile submarines to target and destroy every capital city in the northern hemisphere using independently targetable nuclear warheads plus the attributes of the weapons equipping today's naval vessels including the Sea Sparrow surface missile system and the Phalanx close-in weapon system. Colour photographs and specification tables for each vessel include type, crew, length, beam, draught, displacement, range, speed, operating depth, powerplant, missiles, guns and much more.