Portaerei: libri di storia illustrati

The Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Carriers of the World

Questa è una guida completa alle portaerei, dalle portaerei per dirigibili e idrovolanti a quelle a decollo e atterraggio verticale/corto (V/STOL) e a propulsione nucleare. Esamina l'evoluzione della portaerei, dai primi voli da navi durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, gli sviluppi nel periodo tra le due guerre e le battaglie della Seconda Guerra Mondiale come Pearl Harbor, fino alle moderne portaerei utilizzate nelle Falkland.
Si tratta di un catalogo completo, paese per paese, di tutte le principali portaerei, con testi di esperti che descrivono la costruzione, l'aspetto, la funzione e la storia di ciascuna nave.

Il volume presenta oltre 500 fotografie che illustrano ogni tipologia. Le schede tecniche forniscono informazioni su paese di origine, azienda costruttrice, date di costruzione e completamento, dislocamento, dimensioni, tipi di velivoli trasportati, armamento, potenza e prestazioni.
Questa imponente enciclopedia è al tempo stesso un'affascinante storia dello sviluppo delle portaerei e un esaustivo catalogo visivo di oltre 170 navi portaerei di tutto il mondo nell'arco di quasi un secolo.

Ogni voce è accompagnata da un pannello con le specifiche tecniche, e tutti i supporti sono corredati da fotografie identificative, molte delle quali non sono mai state pubblicate insieme in un unico volume.
Con magnifiche illustrazioni e informazioni aggiornate, questo libro offre ad appassionati e storici informazioni fondamentali sulle portaerei di tutto il mondo, ed è un riferimento essenziale per chiunque sia interessato all'aviazione navale.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Bernard Ireland
Formato:	256 pagine, 28 x 22 x 1.6 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	riccamente illustrato
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Anness Publishing (GB, 2012)
ISBN:	9781780192178

Carriers at War 1939-1945

The author begins this book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars and describing their revolutionary but uneven introduction into the leading navies of the world. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and, with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese quickly became front runners.

The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of the Second World War with the losses of HMS Courageous and Glorious. However successes at Taranto and Matapan confirmed the strategic and tactical value of carriers. The role of carrier-borne aircraft in the demise of Bismarck effectively signalled the end of the Battleship era.
Stung by such catastrophic losses from Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbour, the Americans threw their full industrial might behind the carrier building programme and the ensuing naval war in the Pacific (Guadalcanal, East Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, Midway and Leyte Gulf) revolved round carrier-borne aircraft. Meanwhile the carrier became pivotal in protecting vital convoys in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean.

In this informative and interesting analysis of sea power in war, the author, a respected military, naval and aviation historian, backs his arguments and enlivens the narrative with copious and stirring accounts of historic naval and air actions.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Adrian Stewart
Formato:	228 pagine, 24 x 16 x 2.5 cm, copertina rigida
Illustrazioni:	16 pagine illustrazioni in B&N
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2013)
ISBN:	9781781591567

World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers (Osprey)

In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck was in service.

High quality artwork and historical photographs help author Mark Lardas tell the fascinating story of the pioneering years of naval aviation, covering such historic clashes as the Japanese siege of Tsingtao, the British raid against German Zeppelin bases at Cuxhaven and the Battle of Jutland, which saw the first airplane take part in a naval battle.

Through detailed analysis he explores their development from hastily adapted merchant ships to the launch of HMS Argus, the first aircraft carrier to have a full-length flight deck, and shows how they paved the way for the aircraft carriers of the future.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Mark Lardas
Formato:	48 pagine, 25 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	riccamente illustrato con foto e disegni (in B&N e in colori)
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2016)
Collana:	New Vanguard (238)
ISBN:	9781472813787

Histoire mondiale des porte-avions, des origines à nos jours

An auxiliary platform during the First World War, the aircraft carrier gained the rank of Capital Ship during the Second World War by giving the air force mobility and permanence in a theater far from land bases.
Its impact on international relations became considerable due to its conventional or nuclear strike capacity on the coastal fringes where most human activity was concentrated.
With the submarine, the aircraft carrier is the naval weapon system which, through its interference or presence, can influence decision-makers and events. A tool for diplomatic and military gesticulation, the aircraft carrier carries or suspends violence, to impose, from the sea, a will on land. A symbol of power, it is, in essence, the emanation of a nation, its technical skills and its economic wealth.

Illustrated with numerous unpublished documents, this second, completely updated edition is the only synthesis published in French on the technical, political and operational history of aircraft carriers in the world.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix
Formato:	240 pagine, 30 x 25 x 2.3 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	650 foto in B&N e in colori
Lingua:	francese
Editore:	ETAI (F, 2022)
ISBN:	9791028304225