Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945 Kindle Edition

This book is a very valuable reference for understanding the Royal Navy as it converted from a wartime navy to a navy facing new challenges in a very different world following the end of World War II. It is interesting to see the number of new programs that were envisioned for the RN only to fall afoul of budget requirements or changing missions. This book is all encompassing, from carriers to counterwarfare vessels. The writing allows easy understanding of technical details which play such a critical role in the story of these ships as they evolve or fall by the wayside. I highly recommend this book to any with an interest in the Royal Navy as it converts from hot war to semi-cold war.

I really like DK Brown's books -- this is my third one, and it did not disappoint. As the author himself worked as a Naval Constructor, he has a lot of "insider" perspective to offer and there is a lot of material from his personal collection.The book covers every type of ship -- aircraft carriers, frigates, destroyers, submarines, small craft, and amphibious vessels. I found the discussion of alternative designs for ships that were actually built, as well as ships that were never built, extremely interesting. There is also a good section on the impact of the Falklands War.About the only thing that's missing is an inventory of what ships were built when, which would have been handy.The book is definitely for "ship geeks" but if you have a strong interest in the Royal Navy it will definitely appeal to you.

Another excellent book by D.K. Brown on design development and design history of Royal Navy warships. My only criticism is that it does not contain any summary tabulations of the ships' characteristics (dimensions, displacements, engine horsepower, armament, and so forth). Sometimes this information is contained within the text, sometimes not, for a given class of ships. Tabulations would be nice to read quickly what the ships were like. The appendices contain very good discussions on ship design or naval architectural methods as they existed after 1945 and into the 1980s.

Not bad. Not a Friedman work by any means, but then you don't Norman Friedman price for it either. A nice synopsis of British post-war ship-building reconstruction.

AS with any book on this sort of subject the text is very technical in places and often very dry. However I found it worth every penny and would recommend this to any serious scholar of the subject of the post 1945 Royal Navy.

Exactly what one would expect fro, the title. Recommended for those with a historical bent.

A brilliant review of the history of post ww2 British warship design. Highly recommended to anyone who served in them.

Norman Palomar calls Brown the "dean of British ship designers," and Brown proves it here.

A subject little reviewed. Educational, interesting and anecdotal. Well written, thoroughly enjoyable.

As with all David Brown's work this was excellent. I did not know just how advanced were the RN designs of the 50's & 60's & how complex was the design process. An excellent read.

great read

Interesting read.

An awesome book.