Warships Today: Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Fighting Ships

by Christopher Chant

Warships Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Fighting Ships (Hardcover) by Chris Chant (Author)... Barnes & Noble (2004) ..

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Christopher Chant is a successful writer on modern military matters, and has a substantial number of authoritative titles to his credit. Military history, and the history of military aviation in particular have long been his passion. Having been part of the editorial team on Purnell's best-selling 'History of the First World War' and 'History of the Second World War', he became a full-time writer and editor in 1974, working extensively on military and aviation subjects. He is also a regular contributor to specialist journals.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this book is good book for referencing general data, it lacks the organization that say a Jane's All The World's Fighting ships volume might have. Warships Today isn't a bad book per se, but the author/editor lumped in various classes of ships under heading such as "cruiser," "frigate," "destroyer," etc. and this is not a very concise means of categorizing such vessels. For example, a British frigate does not serve the same function as say a US frigate. Both are certainly fighting vessels, but the US version is much larger and is essentially a destroyer designed for the role of anti-aircraft escort; whereas frigates in an English naval task force are generally of the anti-submarine role and are considerably smaller in displacement.
While these differences are nit-picky on my part, they are nonetheless the reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5.