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Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons and Tactics in World War II | 
 enlarge | Author: D.k. Brown
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £25.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 40414
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1844157024
EAN: 9781844157020
ASIN: 1844157024
Publication Date: November 15, 2007
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Well worth buying ......but...... March 16, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First the good points
# The author brings his extensive personal knowledge to the subject. Spending his entire working life as a naval architect with the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, David Brown can give his own characteristic insight and observations into many aspects of the subject - but in an interesting and understandable way. This is one of the very real values of the book
# The book is not overburdened by the "laundry lists" of ship names, launch dates etc which are readily available elsewhere and probably already in the library of most people buying this book. Where tabular information is given it is relevent, and in many cases , new.
# The photographs are very well chosen, plenteous,and printed to a good size - and above all are superbly reproduced. These photos, many of which are new to me, are easily worth the modest sum charged for the book.
Now the quibbles
# This is an attempt to tell the technical and operational history of escorts in the context of the Battle of the Atlantic. In the words of the late Tony Preston "this is attempting too much on the dispacement". Too much has had to be left out of the conflict itself - for instance the part placed by Escort Carriers - to give the full picture. Also it omits some escorts, notably the "Hunt" class destroyers, which although largly absent from the Atlantic arena, one might have expected to have been given a mention.
# A fair amount of the available space in the book has been used to reproduce the (copyright free) maps from an HMSO publication "The Battle of the Atlantic". As the author states these give a vivid impression of the geographical shifts in the battle. But they have been reproduced too small to differentiate between the symbols for merchant ships sunk and U boat losses. They should have been simplified and made smaller, or reproduced to the original size. As in ship design all space is valuable and all allocation a compromise - and this compromise has not worked.
But this book is still very well worth buying and can be thoroughly recommended.
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