Escort Carriers and Aviation Support Ships of the US Navy
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1981. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing after the first English Language edition by Conway Maritime Press Ltd. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 12 inches. 208 pages. Illustrations. Technical data. Explanatory Notes. Ship Name Index. Includes sections on: US Escort Carriers, Origins and Development of US Escort Carriers, Escort Carrier Classes, Aviation Support Ships, and Aviation Support Ship Categories and Classes. Appendices include Bibliography, Construction Details for British Escort Carriers, Construction Details for US Escort Carriers/Reclassification Details, Construction Details for Aviation Support Ships, Dimensions of Escort Carrier Classes, Dimensions of Aviation Support Ships, Machinery of Escort Carrier Classes, Machinery of Aviation Support Ships, Armament of Escort Carrier Classes, Armament of Aviation Support Ships, Escort Carrier Air Groups, and Escort Carrier Squadrons. Ink notation from previous owner inside front cover. DJ has some wear and soiling. Sticker on back of DJ states Naval Institute Press Edition. Sticker on title page also indicates published and distributed in the United States by the Naval Institute Press. Stefan Terzibaschitsch (born March 22, 1926 in Belgrade ; † January 8, 2008 in Leonberg) was a German naval book author of Serbian descent. His area of work was mainly the United States Navy , about which he wrote 28 books. There are also numerous specialist articles for various marine magazines. Taken to Germany as a result of the war, he was initially employed in the Ruhr coal mine from 1946 to 1960. He then worked for a support company in civil engineering in Leonberg until his retirement in 1986. Stefan Terzibaschitsch has been involved with the US Navy since 1961 and began to publish his own work on this in German. In addition to his publishing activities, he was a member of various maritime organizations and thus had contacts with members of the US Navy and experts all over the world.
Stefan Terzibaschitsch has been interested in maritime issues from an early age. In 1954 he had first contacts with the German specialist authors Alexander Bredt and Erich Gröner . This is where we started working on Weyer's Flottentaschenbuch, the standard German-language yearbook on the world's navies. This was later followed by work on Jane's Fighting Ships, Flottes de Combat and the English-language edition Combat Fleets of the World . From 1961 the specialization on the ships of the US Navy took place. Since 1959 he has contributed to German, British, American, Italian, Japanese and Swiss naval journals. In the same year, after a visit to Erich Gröner, the quarterly information sheet News from the US Navy was published . According to his own information, Stefan Terzibaschitsch published 428 articles in specialist journals between 1959 and 2003. In 1965 his first book was published. Stefan Terzibaschitsch was also a member of the United States Naval Institute and the International Naval Research Organization. Based on his experience, the author was considered a leading European expert on the US Navy, but preferably for the period after the Second World War. For the post-war period, his comprehensive and detailed explanations on the US Navy remain standard literature in German-speaking countries. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Escort Carriers, Aviation Support Ships, Naval Architecture, Shipbuilding, Weapons, Radar, Fire Control, AKV, APV, ARV, AVB, AVS, AVT, Seaplane Tenders, Helicopter Repair, Naval Construction, Naval Machinery, CVE, AVG, Cargo Ships, Transports
ISBN: 0831729791
[Book #81639]
Price: $125.00