Battleship Book

1	Philippine Waters	7
2	Origins, Early Years and Arms Races	10
3	The First World War	53
4	The Inter-War Period: Limitation, Reconstruction and the New	104
5	The Second World War, 1939-1945	154
6	The Last Goodbye	213
	Maps	232
	Appendices
1	The battleships and battlecruisers of the dreadnought era	238
2	The dreadnought designs 1904-1905	244
3	Principle characteristics of the Dreadnought and Invincible	245
4	The major powers at sea 1 August 1914	246
5	Heligoland 28 August 1914	247
6	The Falklands 8 December 1914	248
7	Dogger Bank 24 January 1915	249
8	The Battle of Jutland 31 May-1 June 1916: orders of battle	251
9	The Allied arrival at Constantinopolis November 1918	255
10	The internment of German warships in the Firth of Forth 21 November 1918	256
11	Battleships and battlecruisers lost during and after the First World War	258
12	The last generation: Europe's built and unbuilt	260
13	Japanese and American capital ship construction after 1937	262
14	Battles and orders of battle: Eastern Solomons to the Philippine Sea August 1942 to June 1944	263
15	The Battle of Leyte Gulf 22-28 October 1944	267
16	Capital ship losses during the Second World War	270
17	The world's battleships and battlecruisers 1905-1998	272
	Notes	309
	Selected bibliography	327
	Index	331
	Acknowledgements	352