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It is with great pleasure that I present this new and important study, the work of friends (and longtime collaborators) Erminio Bagnasco and Augusto de Toro, relating to the five Italian 'dreadnoughts' of the 'Conte di Cavour' and 'Duilio' classes -designed on the eve of the Great War -four of which also served in the Second World War following extensive reconstruction during the 1930s. In the introduction that follows, the authors delve deeply into the details of the genesis and development of this work, which describes the technical aspects of these ships and their long careers from the period immediately preceding Italy's entry into the First World War until the years following the Second World War. This book, originally presented in a two-volume series of monographs in Italian, represents an indepth and exhaustive study of an uncommon subject, in part because, as the authors correctly point out in their introduction, until now the only complete works on the 'Cavour' and the 'Duilio' classes have been two noteworthy volumes -which are dated and now almost impossible to find -written by Franco Bargoni and Franco Gay in the early 1970s for the old 'Orizzonte mare' series. The stru
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- Author
- Erminio Bagnasco; Augusto de Toro
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526799890
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Engineering, Military