Cannoniere: libri di storia illustrati

Big Gun Monitors - Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945

In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor - indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over.

Nevertheless, they were important ships, which played a significant role in many Great War campaigns and drove many of the advances in long-range gunnery later applied to the battle fleet. Indeed, their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built.

Monitors were largely ignored by naval historians until Ian Buxton produced the first edition of this book in 1978. Although published privately, this became an established classic and copies of the first edition are now almost unobtainable, so this new edition will be welcomed by many.
It has been completely revised, extended and redesigned to a generous large format which allows material deleted from the original edition for lack of space to be restored.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Ian Buxton
Formato:	256 pagine, 26 x 22.5 x 1.8 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	180 foto, 45 disegni
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2012)
ISBN:	9781848321243

Gunboats of World War I (Osprey)

Le azioni navali nella Prima Guerra Mondiale evocano immagini di enormi corazzate che si scontrano in vasti oceani. Eppure, la verità è che un numero maggiore di marinai perse la vita prestando servizio su cannoniere e monitori, operanti lontano dall'epicentro navale della guerra, rispetto a quelli caduti nella battaglia dello Jutland.

Gli scontri tra cannoniere durante questa guerra furono sanguinosi e aspri, sebbene di portata limitata. Le cannoniere austriache sul Danubio spararono i primi colpi di guerra, mentre cannoniere tedesche, britanniche e belghe combatterono una delle campagne navali più strane e intriganti della storia nel remoto lago Tanganica.

Dal Mediterraneo al Mar Nero, dai Balcani alla Mesopotamia, le cannoniere hanno giocato un ruolo determinante nella storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Questa guida tecnica dettagliata sulle cannoniere di tutte le principali marine militari del conflitto permette, per la prima volta, di raccontare questa storia.

Indice: Introduzione - Cronologia - Progettazione e sviluppo - Storia operativa - Armamento - Funzionamento - Cannoniere in azione - Bibliografia.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Angus Konstam
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, 2015)
Collana:	New Vanguard (221)
ISBN:	9781472804983

River Gunboats : An Illustrated Encyclopaedia

The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honourable East India Company's gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual actions, down to the Portuguese and American 'Brown Water' fighting in Africa and Vietnam respectively at the end of the twentieth century.
They proved to be the decisive factor in operations against the Maoris, with Gordon's Ever Victorious Army in China, during the river campaigns of the American Civil War, in the French conquest of Indochina, during Kitchener's advance on Khartoum, and on the Rufiji and Tigris during the Great War.

River gunboats fought for the Paris Commune, on the rivers of South America, against the Bolsheviks, and during the Second World War in the open waters of the Mediterranean, while armoured Soviet gunboats fought German Panzers, and a pair of 'Girls' attacked the Japanese on the banks of the Irrawaddy.

This lavishly illustrated encyclopaedia describes vessels of every nation designed as river gunboats, plus those converted river steamers which took part in combat. Maps of the river systems where they operated are included, together with narratives of the principal actions involving river gunboats. Their story is brought up-to-date with data on current riverine combat vessels in service today.

Dettagli del libro

Autore:	Roger Branfill-Cook
Formato:	336 pagine, 29 x 24.5 cm, copertina rigida
Illustrazioni:	900 foto in B&N e in colori
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2016)
ISBN:	9781848323650