Название: The Age of the Battleship 1890-1922
Автор: Brayton Harris
Издательство: Franklin Watts, Inc.
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 29,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the years following the Civil War, ignorance, indifference, and corruption left such a mark on the U. S. Navy that the entire fleet of the 1880s could have been defeated by any single modern warship of the day. It was to take years of often-acrimonious wrangling to re-build the sorry fleet-but despite factional disputes and political bumbling, the Navy rose in strength and efficiency until, by 1922, it was second to none in the world.