Warships Today by Chris Chant
Warships Today (Illustrated Naval Reference in Dust Jacket)
A Profusely Illustrated Guide to Over 200 of the World's Major Warships in Service at the Start of the Century
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Warships Today: Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Warships
- Author: Chris Chant
- Editor: Charlotte Judet
- Publisher: Silverdale Books, an imprint of Bookmart Ltd, Leicester
- Publication Date: 2004
- ISBN-13: 9781845090074
- ISBN-10: 1845090071
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated hardcover boards with a blue spine, in a printed dust jacket with a protective plastic cover.
- Physical Format: Large format hardcover, roughly A4-size, 256 pages. Profusely illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, full-colour class artwork and boxes of technical specifications.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The publisher's boards carry the same artwork as the jacket and look clean and bright, with a blue spine. The jacketed spine is blue with white lettering and appears clean and unmarked. Corners and edges show no obvious damage.
- Interior: The title page, copyright page and sample pages are clean and bright, with no foxing, markings or tears. The binding is tight. No inscriptions, stamps or ex-library marks are visible.
- The Dust Jacket: Present. The printed jacket is clean and bright with no visible tears, with only faint surface scuffing to the back panel. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Warships Today: Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Warships was published in 2004 by Silverdale Books and edited by Charlotte Judet. It is a large, lavishly illustrated reference to the major warships in service around the world at the time of publication.
Each vessel or class is shown in full-colour artwork alongside a box of detailed technical specifications. The chapters range across aircraft carriers, submarines, surface action groups and amphibious forces, giving a broad view of modern naval power at the turn of the twenty-first century.
A useful reference for naval enthusiasts, modellers and collectors of militaria, and a snapshot of the world's fleets in the early 2000s.
Author Profile: Chris Chant
Christopher Chant was born in Macclesfield, England, in 1945 and is a freelance writer on aviation, naval and military subjects.
His other works include Warships of the 20th Century and Submarines of the 20th Century (both Tiger Books, 1996), Small Arms (Silverdale Books, 2003), The World's Great Bombers (Silverdale, 2005) and Air War in the Falklands 1982 (Osprey).
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