Need A Book Recommendation

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I just got done reading Conway's Battleships, there are plenty of books out there but is there anyone would recommend about either British or German battleships. I am pretty open to any material about either subject, also let me know if there any books I should definately stay away from.
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Wrong f@%king ship!" Commander Stewart-Moore (HMS Ark Royal)
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Kyler wrote:I just got done reading Conway's Battleships, there are plenty of books out there but is there anyone would recommend about either British or German battleships. I am pretty open to any material about either subject, also let me know if there any books I should definately stay away from.

WW1 or WW2?
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German Capital Ships of World War Two, by M. J. Whitley.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 3/bismarck

Very good and cheap! :ok:
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Either WW2 or WW1 it really doesn't matter to me
"It was a perfect attack, Right Height, Right Range, Right cloud cover, Right speed,
Wrong f@%king ship!" Commander Stewart-Moore (HMS Ark Royal)
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Axis BBs by Garzke & Dullin
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Battleships: Allied Battleships of World War II by Robert O. Dulin Jr., William H. Garzke Jr., and Thomas G. Webb

British Battleships of World War Two by Alan Raven and John Roberts

British Battleships 1889-1904 by Robert A. Burt

British Battleships of World War One by Robert A. Burt

British Battleships 1919-1939 by Robert A. Burt

British Battleships 1860-1950 by Oscar Parkes

Battleships and Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy since 1861 by B.R. Coward

Battlecruisers by John Roberts

Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870-1881 by John Beeler

Battleships in Transition: The Creation of the Steam Battlefleet, 1815-1860 by Andrew D. Lambert

German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 1 by Erich Groener

The German Navy at War: Vol. I The Battleships by Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop

Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia by M. J. Whitley

Not a definitive list by any means. Depending on how much you want to spend, some of these are better buys than others. And there are a ton of books about the individual ships and ship classes. And since you did ask, I am not a fan of Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century.
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