Portaaviones: libros - historia y modelos

The Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Carriers of the World

Esta es una guía completa sobre portaaviones, desde los portazepelines e hidroaviones hasta los portaaviones V/STOL y de propulsión nuclear. Examina la evolución del portaaviones, desde los primeros vuelos desde buques en la Primera Guerra Mundial, los avances durante el período de entreguerras y las batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial como Pearl Harbor, hasta los portaaviones modernos utilizados en las Malvinas.
Se trata de un directorio exhaustivo, país por país, de todos los principales portaaviones, con textos especializados que describen la construcción, el aspecto, la función y la historia de cada buque.

Incluye más de 500 fotografías que ilustran cada tipo. Los recuadros de especificaciones proporcionan información sobre el país de origen, la empresa que construyó el portaaviones, las fechas de construcción y finalización, el desplazamiento, las dimensiones, los tipos de aeronaves que puede transportar, el armamento, la potencia y el rendimiento.
Esta impresionante enciclopedia es a la vez una fascinante historia del desarrollo de los portaaviones y un completo directorio visual de más de 170 buques de aviación del mundo a lo largo de casi un siglo.

Cada entrada va acompañada de un panel de especificaciones, y todas las compañías aéreas van acompañadas de fotografías de identificación, muchas de las cuales nunca antes se habían publicado juntas en un mismo volumen.
Con magníficas ilustraciones e información actualizada, este libro proporciona tanto a aficionados como a historiadores información clave sobre los portaaviones del mundo, y es una referencia esencial para todos los interesados en la aviación naval.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Bernard Ireland
Presentación:	256 páginas, 28 x 22 x 1.6 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	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.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Adrian Stewart
Presentación:	228 páginas, 24 x 16 x 2.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	16 páginas ilustraciones b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2013)
ISBN:	9781781591567

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.

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Autor:	Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix
Presentación:	240 páginas, 30 x 25 x 2.3 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	650 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	ETAI (F, 2022)
ISBN:	9791028304225

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.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Mark Lardas
Presentación:	48 páginas, 25 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos y dibujos (en b/n y color)
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2016)
Colección:	New Vanguard (238)
ISBN:	9781472813787