The British Hawkins Class Cruisers
an odyssey through two world wars
$114.32
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2024
Summary
Lions of the Seas: A History of the British Hawkins Class Cruisers
During World War I, rumors of heavily-armed German raiders spurred the Royal Navy to build its first ‘modern’ heavy cruisers: the Hawkins class. Named for famous Elizabethan seamen, these ships were a radical departure from older armored cruisers, serving as prototypes for the ‘Washington Treaty’ cruisers that would define naval construction in the 1920s.
Completed too late for WWI, the Hawkins class had a va…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399056120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399056123 |
| Author: | Aidan Dodson |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Seaforth Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.27kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 283mm x 228mm |
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About The Author
Aidan Dodson
Aidan Dodson has taught at the University of Bristol since 1996, and combines the disparate academic fields of naval history and Egyptology, being honorary Professor of the latter subject. He holds a BA from the University of Liverpool, and an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and also worked as a civil servant in defence procurement for 25 years, acting as project leader for the former Falkland Islands patrol vessel, HMS Clyde. He is a regular contributor to the annual journal Warship, and author of some thirty books, the present volume being his sixth on a naval topic.
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