Sir Billy Howe Author:Bellamy Partridge An authoritative history of the height of the age of the ship of the line from Trafalgar to Tsushima, focusing on the great individual ships and fleets of the nineteenth century and such campaigns as Lissa and the coming of the Russo-Japanese War. The author provides an opening chapter on the construction of the ships built after Trafa... more »lgar, with their new armaments, the introduction of shell guns, the introduction of armor, and the coming of steam power. He then goes on to examine the great European and Asian sea battles of the period, critically evaluating the tactics and strategies or each and analyzing the reasons for victory and defeat in the handling of the fleets, culminating in the events at Tsushima. He then enunciates the main argument of his book: the central importance of the principle of development of fire effect to the fullest extent possible. He concludes his study: "The decline in the value of armour and its possible reduction, coupled with the increased range of modern guns, are the changed conditions which enable a return to be made to the old principle." Reprint of the London: 1912 publication. 2006: 215 pages. 7 CHARTS AND OVERSIZE MAP ON 1 CD. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)« less