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Author: John Jordan
John
Jordan is a
former teacher of modern languages and lives in Gosport (near
Portsmouth), UK. Formerly a specialist in the postwar Soviet Navy, he
authored Soviet
Warships: The Soviet Surface Fleet 1960 to the Present (1983), Soviet
Submarines 1945 to the present (1989) and Soviet Warships 1945
to the
Present (1992), all for Arms & Armour Press in association
with the US
Naval Institute Press. During the same period he also contributed to
studies of
the Soviet Navy published by Westview Press (Boulder, Colorado).
Following the
collapse of the Soviet Union he turned his attention to the French
Marine
Nationale of the interwar period, producing a series of articles on the
submarines and on the major classes of surface warship for the
prestigious
annual Warship from 1991 to the present. In 2005 John became
editor of Warship,
and in 2009 co-authored French
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Naval Radar
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Books
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This book,
published in 2009 is the definitive reference on its subject. Using a
wealth of primary-source material, some of which has only recently been
made available, the authors provide a full account of the development
and a detailed analysis of the design characteristics of the Dunkerque
and Richelieu classes. The
technical chapters are interspersed with operational histories and the
work is extensively illustrated with
hundreds of photographs and technical drawings. To order
French
Battleships
The annual Warship can be
ordered from Naval Institute
Warship
2011
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