TRIBALS, BATTLES AND DARINGS.
THE GENESIS OF THE MODERN DESTROYER
by Alexander
Clarke
The ships that dominate so much of the history of the
Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not
the carriers or battleships and rarely do ships smaller than
cruisers move centre stage. Apart that is from one class,
the Tribal class destroyers, heroes of the Altmark incident,
of the battle of Narvik, and countless actions. Yet there
has been surprisingly little written about these critical
ships, still less about their wartime successors, the Battle
class, or their postwar incarnations, the Daring class. This
book seeks to rectify this by describing the three classes,
each designed under different circumstances along destroyer
lines but to general-purpose light cruiser form, from the
interwar period through to the 1950s, and the author
explains the procurement process for each class in the
context of the needs and technology of the times.
New in d/w - Large format, 176pp,
numerous b/w photos & other illustrations
