Aircraft Carriers: 1917-Present

Illustrated with detailed artworks of aircraft carriers with exhaustive captions and specifications, Aircraft Carriers is an extensively researched review of the key capital ships deployed by the world’s navies organized chronologically.

First developed in the final years of World War I, aircraft carriers have been the dominant technology in naval warfare since World War II, following the devastatingly effective carrier-borne air raid on the Italian base of Taranto by the British in 1940, an...