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The more than 1,000 entries range in length from a quarter of a page to several pages. Throughout the text, words in small capital letters designate see also references. Also, there are occasional see references, for example, Graf Spee see Admiral Graf Spee. Approximately one-third of the entries include bibliographic citations of one to five titles. Appropriately placed throughout the text are around 122 illustrations of black-and-white photographs and drawings. There are no maps or diagrams. Biographical entries provide birth and death years and information on careers and participation in conflicts. Entries on ships give years launched and taken out of service, weapons, ship length, displacement, crew size, and speed. Entries on wars include chronologies.
Assisting users are a thematic and a general index. A random check determined the indexes to be accurate. One significant error in the text and index was noted under the entry for Battle of the Java Sea in World War II. References are made to the cruiser Hasten, which, in fact, should be the cruiser Houston.
There are many outstanding naval histories for particular countries, but only a few general works that are comparable to this one. It is more current than A History of War and Sea by Helmut Pemsel (Naval Institute, 1989), which covers naval history from ancient times to the Vietnam era. An Encyclopedia of Naval History is well organized, current, and broad in coverage and should be considered for academic and public-library collections.
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