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Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, and the largest warship of her day. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced photos of stunning clarity and detail, although very few of the images have ever been published. This pictorial collection, with its lengthy and informative captions, offers ship modellers and enthusiasts a wealth of visual information simply unobtainable elsewhere. AUTHOR: Ian Johnston is the author of several books, including Ships for a Nation, and Beardmore Built, the story of another great Clydeside yard. SELLING POINTS: . An album of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished . Devoted to the most popular ship type of the Great War . Extensive, and expert captioning ILLUSTRATIONS: 200 b/w photographs *

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Although this is essentially a picture book, it is a cut above most illustrated volumes because of the very high standard of images reproduced and the story they tell of shipbuilding in the early 20th century. - Ships Monthly

Although this is essentially a picture book, it is a cut above most illustrated volumes because of the very high standard of images reproduced and the story they tell of shipbuilding in the early 20th century. - Ships Monthly While this new publication is essentially a 'picture book', using rare and largely unpublished photographs from the John Brown archive, it is also much more than that, recording in detail not only the construction of the ships concerned. The photographs, which constitute the primary focus of the book, are simply stunning, and are given plenty of space to 'breathe' by the book's designer...overall content and otherwise excellent production values of the book. Clydebank Battlecruisers has to be on of the outstanding publications of the year, and anyone with an interest in the major ships of the grand Fleet or shipbuilding on the Clyde will want to own it. - Warship 2012

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