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Mark Lardas

South American Battleships 1908-59

Brazil, Argentina, and Chile's great dreadnought race

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In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, greatest category of warship available - the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought by itself could defeat the combined gunnery of every other warship of all the other South American nations. Brazil's decision triggered its neighbour Argentina to order its own brace of dreadnoughts, which in turn forced Chile (which had fought boundary disputes with Argentina) to order some.In the process, the South American dreadnought mania drove the three participants nearly into insolvency, led to th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Baker, Julian (Illustr.) / Shumate, Johnny (Illustr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4728-2510-0
  • EAN: 9781472825100
  • Produktnummer: 25733756
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 48 S.
  • Masse: H24.9 cm x B18.4 cm x D0.5 cm 160 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 264
  • Gewicht: 160

Über den Autor


Mark Lardas holds a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, but spent his early career at the Johnson Space Center doing Space Shuttle structural analysis, and space navigation. An amateur historian and a long-time ship modeller, Mark Lardas is currently working in League City, Texas. He has written extensively about modelling as well as naval, maritime, and military history.

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