Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat

Naval Institute Press, October 2008. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. Dust jacket is like new. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Beginnings - Peru (1877), The Black Sea (1877), Chile (1891) and China (1904-5) -- 2.) David and Goliath - The Dardanelles (May 1915) -- 3.) The agony of the 4th flotilla (31 May-1 June 1916) -- 4.) Broke again - Dover Strait (21 April 1917) -- 5.) Stumbling to Glory - Narvik (10-13 April 1940) -- 6.) Good day turned bad - the Red Sea (23 June 1940) -- 7.) No good deed shall go unpunished - the Santa Cruz Islands (26 October 1942) -- 8.) Meatgrinder - the Solomons (August 1942-November 1943) -- 9.) Fire from the sky - East China Sea (6 April 1945) -- 10.) The Cold War gets hotter - the Gulf of Tonkin (2 and 4 August 1964) -- 11.) A war over very nearly nothing - The Falklands (May 1982) -- 12.) A look back from an asymmetrical future - Aden (12 October 2000) -- * APPENDIX - Gun Calibres * Sources * Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . This book recounts some of the most significant, spectacular or unusual actions in the history of destroyer warfare, from the first employment of torpedo craft during the Russo-Japanese War to the recent terrorist attack on USS Cole. With individual chapters devoted to each incident, each reflects a development in the tactics or technology, so taken as a whole the book amounts to an outline history of the destroyer. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.