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title: "British Cruisers of the Victorian Era Hardcover – Illustrated, November 15, 2012"
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# British Cruisers of the Victorian Era Hardcover – Illustrated, November 15, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

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    The book has excellent, very clear photos.
  

*by Q***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018*

As with all things, make sure you are buying what you want. The first 150 pages of the 400 page book covers the steam/sailing ships. While these are neat, I am not that interested in them. So once again, make sure you are buying what you are interested in. The book has excellent, very clear, detailed, close up photos of many of the ships. There are also excellent line drawings and coverage of each class. If you want to build a model of one of these ships, you will be pleased to use this book as a reference. However, as prior reviews noted, many of these photos were printed covering two pages and some is lost in the binding of the book. I find this unfortunate as the pictures are excellent and very detailed. But, on the other hand, it doesn't detract THAT much from the photos. For this reason, I give the book a 4 star rating.For those interested in this era, I recommend it. I think you will be pleased despite the photos.

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    Masterpiece Torpedoed By Bad Editing
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014*

"British Cruisers of the Victorian Era" has a lot going for it. The production values are superb; the hundreds of photographs from the National Maritime Museum are of superb quality, as are the dozens of detailed plan and profile drawings by A D Baker III. The pages are printed on high-quality glossy stock, and the binding is quite strong. The scope of the book is impressive, starting with the steam corvettes of the 1840s and ending with the big first-class cruisers of the early 1900s. And with Norman Friedman at the helm, rest assured it's an exhaustive treatment of the subject.When Friedman is in his element, this book is superb. The introduction is very well done, going into intricate detail on the political situation of post-Napoleonic Europe, the evolution of British fleet tactics in the early steam era, the design of steam engines and boilers, the types of guns used by these ships, and the designing of ships for trade protection and duty on overseas stations. Friedman dovetails these developments with the difficulty of selling these ships to a fickle English government, and the problems associated with procuring and maintaining enough ships to protect distant British possessions from whatever the Royal Navy's projected "future enemy" might be. Like his eight-volume series on American warship design, this book focuses mainly on the evolution of each new ship class, and the political and military forces behind them, rather than their Royal Navy service. Many of the photo captions are quite lengthy and serve as capsule summaries of the ship's life, but this book never attempts to be a serious operational analysis.So why only three stars? For a top-shelf military reference book written by one of the finest naval historians of our time, it's presented more like a coffee table book gathering dust at Barnes and Noble. Friedman has always been a serious academic writer, so Seaforth's recent attempts at "sexing up" his recent works strikes me as odd. Many of the photographs are spread across two pages, with important details like funnels and masts falling into the gutter, with smaller photographs frequently plopped incongruously atop larger ones. Ship specifications and important dates are included as appendixes (the only thing that's ever really bothered me about Friedman's books), resulting in an awful lot of back-and-forth cross referencing. Finally, this book is riddled with typos, sometimes several on the same page."British Cruisers of the Victorian Era" is a worthwhile book for fans of British warships, but it's a shame to see a potential masterpiece sunk by bad editing and formatting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Magnificent in Every Way
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016*

It's hard to think of anything that could be improved upon in this compendium of a massive subject.  The introduction alone (covering not only technology but strategic thinking, including the various RN exercises) is terrific.  The drawings are excellent, and cover almost all classes (but see below); the organization by material and strategic purpose is easy to understand and follow.If forced to find any faults at all, they might be absence of plans for the important (but unsuccessful) Mersey class, and of any early steam cruisers other than HMS Shah.  I would have liked to see a paddler (HMS Terrible?) and certainly one of the wooden steam frigates.  I would also have liked to see just a dotted line on the plan drawings indicating the waterline - giving a suggestion for hull profile in modeling without the labor and confusion of full hull lines.Highly, highly recommended.

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