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'''Battleship''' refers to a type of heavily-armored [[warship]] bearing the largest caliber of [[firearm|guns]] afloat, specifically those warships built between the 1890s through the 1940s.
'''Battleship''' refers to a type of heavily-armored [[warship]] bearing the largest caliber of [[firearm|guns]] afloat, specifically those warships built between the 1890s through the 1940s.
==Further reading==
* Brown, David K. ''Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45'' (1992)
* Friedman, Norman, and A. D. Baker. ''Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnaught Era'' (2008)
* Garcia Y Robertson, Rodrigo. "Failure of the Heavy Gun at Sea, 1898-1922." ''Technology and Culture'' 1987 28(3): 539-557. Issn: 0040-165x Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-165X(198707)28%3A3%3C539%3AFOTHGA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 in Jstor]
* Hodges, Peter. ''The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945'', (1981), highly detailed coverage
* Hone, Trent. "The Evolution of Fleet Tactical Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1922-1941," ''The Journal of Military History'' - Volume 67, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 1107-1148 in [[Project Muse]]
* Lambert, Nicholas A. ''Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Fishers-Revolution-Studies-Maritime-History/dp/1570034923/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203294993&sr=1-36 excerpt and text search]
* McBride, William M. ''Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Technological-1865-1945-Hopkins-Studies-Technology/dp/0801864860/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203293238&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Mulligan, Timothy. "Ship-of-the-Line or Atlantic Raider? Battleship Bismarck Between Design Limitations and Naval Strategy," ''The Journal of Military History'' 69#4 October 2005, pp. 1013-1044 in [[Project Muse]]
* Parkes, Oscar ''British Battleships: 'Warrior' 1860 to 'Vanguard' 1950 - A History of Design, Construction and Armament'' (1990) Naval Institute, Annapolis
* Sondhaus, Lawrence. ''Naval Warfare, 1815-1914'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/109459237 online edition]
* Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "Gunnery, Procurement, and Strategy in the Dreadnought Era," ''The Journal of Military History'' v69#4 (2005) 1179-1187 online at [[Project Muse]]
* Weller, Donald M. "Salvo-splash! The Development of Naval Gunfire Support in World War II". ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'' 1954 80(8): 839-849, 1011-1021
see also [[Naval guns]]
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