Naval Handbook as Bearing on National Defense and the European War (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Parker, Thomas Drayton) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Naval Handbook as Bearing on National Defense and the European War What this Handbook is. - Every civilian who trains his glasses on the Channel, the Baltic, or the Dardanelles, finds his view blocked by a series of questions that interpose like hands across the lens of a telescope. "How far can a big gun shoot?"; "What is a battle cruiser?"; "Can an aeroplane sink a battleship?"; "Why don´t they scrap their dreadnoughts?" - and so on. True our citizen could dig out his information from text books, or run through the files of newspapers and technical magazines: but life is too short; he wants an answer at once and for want of it is tripped up by a few facts, the ABC´s of another profession, that could be readily given off hand. He goes wrong on the earlier sea fights of the war because he fails to discriminate between battleships and cruisers; he finds submarine warfare dark and deep because, for all he knows, the U-29 and K-6 may have cage masts and turrets; he cannot say what neutrality is, since he lacks the elements of International Law, and he is hurled to the ground in aerial talk because his Parsevals are seaplanes, or his Zeppelins, Taubes. We sincerely wish to help this man - to change him, during one short half hour, into a wizard who will astonish his sons and command respectful attention from Old Boys at the club. At least we can give him, by explaining away some trifling difficulties, a far better understanding of the situation in Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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