Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Age of Innovation 1820–1870

Chapter 2 The Age of Experiment: 1870–1890

Chapter 3 The Two Power Standard

Chapter 4 The Age of the Dreadnought 1906–1908

Chapter 5 The Naval Race 1908–1914

Chapter 6 Dreadnoughts at War – 1914–1918

Chapter 7 Pre-dreadnoughts in the First World War

Chapter 8 The Treaty of Versailles and the Washington Naval Treaty

Chapter 9 Rearmament

Chapter 10 Battle Fleets in Action, 1939–45 – the North Sea and the Atlantic

Chapter 11 War in the Mediterranean

Chapter 12 Battleships in the Pacific

Chapter 13 The End of the Battleship Era

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