(Part 2) Top products from r/Warships
We found 10 product mentions on r/Warships. We ranked the 27 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Clash of Wings: World War II in the Air
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
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23. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews24. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Show Reddit reviews25. If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy -From the Revolution to the War of 1812
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
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Six Frigates by Ian Toll is Phenomenal: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Frigates-Epic-History-Founding/dp/0393058476/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BYGY83FZD1CE&keywords=six+frigates&qid=1556727829&s=gateway&sprefix=Six+Fri%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1
The Line Upon the wind covers the Napoleonic war at sea: https://www.amazon.com/Line-Upon-Wind-Great-1793-1815/dp/0393066533/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1556728015&refinements=p_27%3ANoel+Mostert&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Noel+Mostert
Nelson's Trafalgar is also fantastic: https://www.amazon.com/Nelsons-Trafalgar-Battle-Changed-World/dp/0670034487/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Trafalgar&qid=1556728094&s=books&sr=1-2
If by Sea is a good companion piece to Six Frigates: https://www.amazon.com/If-Sea-Forging-American-Revolution/dp/0465016073/ref=pd_sim_14_92?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0465016073&pd_rd_r=84676f5d-6c2d-11e9-94d4-49728df24266&pd_rd_w=pA1k7&pd_rd_wg=XsBKn&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=W77XXV91PDQA2J0S6EE9&psc=1&refRID=W77XXV91PDQA2J0S6EE9
The best of the bunch is definitely Six Frigates.
Ian Tolls books are a fantastic overall look at naval warfare and the pacific theatre on both sides. Toll goes in depth on describing the ships of the time, how they got there, how there were used, tactics, leaders, as well as the ground and air campaigns. They are outstanding books, I have included the link to his first one Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 He includes pictures as well but as an author he does a fantastic job of painting a picture of aspects you would never have even thought of.
Ship of Ghosts is another good one about the dark and ugly early days of the Pacific War.
Ok. Here you go!
Clash of Titans: World War II At Sea Walter J. Boyne (the author) was an Air Force colonel and gives an interesting perspective on WW2 at sea. He also wrote Clash of Wings about the war in the air.
Great Warship From the Age of Steam by David Ross. Fun coffee table book that has just about every large big gun warship from 1860 to 1945 listed.
Struggle for the Middle Sea and The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945 are books by Vincent P. O'Hara who does an excellent job of covering just about every single engagement by the Germans, Italians and Allies during WW2. You come away with the impression that the Italians gave just as good as they got most of the time. And wonder why you haven't heard of 90% of the battles in his books.
'And I Was There' by Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton. You won't read a better book about the intelligence (and failure of intelligence) behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. Adm Layton was Admiral Kimmel's Combat Intelligence Officer and had intimate knowledge of just about everything relating to code breaking in WW2.
Japanese Destroyer Captain by Captain Tameichi Hara. This guy was everywhere in the Pacific. Pearl. Fighting it out point blank at Guadalcanal. Midway. He commanded the light cruiser escorting Yamato when she was sunk on her kamikaze mission. And, somehow, he lived.
*More to come tomorrrow, if I get a chance.