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Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1: 1909-1945 | 
 enlarge | Author: Norman Polmar
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 223656
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1574886630
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.9435
EAN: 9781574886634
ASIN: 1574886630
Publication Date: October 24, 2006
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Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare.
Volume I provides a comprehensive analysis of carrier developments and warfare in the first half of the twentieth century, and examines the advances that allowed the carrier to replace the battleship as the dominant naval weapons system. Polmar gives particular emphasis to carrier operations from World War I, through the Japanese strikes against China in the 1930s, to World War II in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, and Pacific theaters. It begins with French inventor Clément Ader’s remarkably prescient 1909 description of an aircraft carrier. The book then explains how Britain led the world in the development of aircraft-carrying ships, soon to be followed by the United States and Japan. While ship-based aircraft operations in World War I had limited impact, they foreshadowed the aircraft carriers built in the 1920s and 1930s. The volume also describes the aircraft operating from those ships as well as the commanders who pioneered carrier aviation.
Aircraft Carriers has benefited from the technical collaboration of senior carrier experts Captain Eric M. Brown and General Minoru Genda as well as noted historians Robert M. Langdon and Peter B. Mersky. Aircraft Carriers is heavily illustrated with more than 400 photographs—some never before published—and maps.
Volume II, which is forthcoming from Potomac Books in the winter 2006-2007 (ISBN 978-1-57488-665-8), will cover the period 1946 to the present.
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Great Aircraft Carrier Reference August 28, 2008
I have several books by Norman Polmar, including this one. I have always found them accurate and detailed. This book covers the essential period of carrier development from the early days when carriers were basically from converted transports or cruiser hulls to full-fledged ships in their own rights including the famed Essex class carriers and beyond. The ships discussed are naval legends...Enterprise, Yorktown, Lexington and more. These were the ships that made not just naval history but changed history against the onslaught of Hitler's National Socialists and Imperial Japan.
 Was Good, Is Old. February 13, 2007
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a re-publication of an old book, published in 1969. When originally published, it was the best available. It is echoed in many more recent works, as THE record, to which later books seek to add and amend.
This re-edition is not good enough. It doesn't accept the modifications to the record that others have been producing, and there are too many errors, many caused by sloppy editing (e.g. HMS Victorious descriped as identical to HMS Indomitable, that is a modified "Illustrious",p84.) On numerous occasions, the ordering and numbering of endnotes has gone awry in re-editing.
Owerall, it was a disappointment to me, and I am not buying volume II.
 A thorough history February 3, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: A HISTORY OF CARRIER AVIATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON WORLD EVENTS - V. I, 1909-1945 offers a definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. This is a part of a 2-volume classic set describing not just carrier construction - something already done in other books - but updating and revising a thorough history of said carriers which describes their political and technological influences on design, operations, and battle capabilities. Chapters analyze the first half of the 20th century and offer much in-depth analysis that is key to any serious military collection's holdings.
Volume 1 of the Definitive book set on Carriers November 23, 2006
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This two book series promises to be the definitive book on the aircraft carrier. At the start of the 20th century there was no question in anyone's mind that the big gun battleship was the dominant force on the world's oceans. At the end of that century, there were virtually no battleships still in service in any Navy. The aircraft carrier is now the undisputed queen of the seas.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were no carriers at all. Indeed there were no planes, the Wright brothers first was in 1903. Only six years later Clement Adler laid out the general plan of the aircraft carrier with a flat, obstacle free deck, and a hanger deck below.
This book begins with these early days and covers them up to the beginning of World War II in about 94 pages. The remainder of the book is on the carriers and their operation during World War II. This is fair since World War II was indeed a carrier war.
It is a supurb book, every aspect of carrier design and operation is covered. There are hundreds of pictures, the printing is first rate on glossy paper.
In addition to the writing by Normal Polmar part of the information presented here was prepared by:
General Minoru Genda, Imperial Japanese Navy
Captain Eric M. Brown, Royal Navy
Professor Robert M. Oangdon, US Naval Academy
Commander Peter B. Mersky, CIA
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