Gunboats of World War I

Gunboats of World War IDescription By Angus Konstam Paperback From the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, from the Balkans to Mesopotamia, gunboats played an influential part in the story of World War I. This detailed technical guide to the gunboats of all the major navies of the war means that, for the first time, the story can be told. Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors

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It introduced revolutionary new military technologies: submarines

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