Cruisers from 1865 to 1910

Really chuffed to have gotten a copy of this - it will save me having to trawl through some dozen or so books at once!

I must confess that I remember seeing the above title when it was first published in 2018 and thinking at the time “I must get a copy of that” - but never got around to it. A chance conversation with the redoubtable Mr Fox at the club, in which he mentioned the above, then served as a timely reminder about it being missing from my collection. 

A swift trawl through eBay later, a secondhand but pristine copy arrived this morning! As Samwise Gamgee remarked in the Lord of the Rings “Glory and Trumpets!” 

What. A. Book.

The title says it all and so it is an invaluable resource on the subject as it covers all the world’s navies (at least those that used large cruisers) in a single volume. I have some other titles of Mr Dodsons - the Kaiser’s Battlefleet and the Kaiser’s Cruisers immediately spring to mind - and this volume follows a similar format. There are plans aplenty along with photographs, technical details as well as some very useful design and development background.

The book covers virtually the entire period that my current title does so I am sure to be using this extensively and yes, it will most certainly be featuring in the bibliography!