the littorio class – Libri e DVD

Descrizione

For its final battleship designItaly ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage and produced one of Europe’s largest and most powerful capital ships, comparable with Germany’s Bismarck Class, similarly built in defiance of international agreements. Thethree ships of the Littorio Classwere typical of Italian design, beingfast and elegant, but also boasting arevolutionary protective scheme– which was tested to the limits, as all three were to be heavily damaged in the hard-fought naval war in the Mediterranean;Romahad the unfortunate distinction of being the first capital ship sunk by guided missile.

These important ships have never been covered in depth in English-language publications, but the need is now satisfied in thiscomprehensive and convincing studyby two of Italy’s leading naval historians. The book combines adetailed analysis of the design with an operational history, evaluating how the ships stood up to combat. It is illustrated with an amazing collection ofphotographs, manyfine-line plans and coloured artwork of camouflage schemes, adding up to as complete a monograph on a single class ever published.

Edition: 2018