Fred T Jane

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ever since its first edition in 1898, Jane's Fighting Ships has been the go-to information source for navalists. As a result past issues of Jane's are an irreplaceable source of contemporaneous perspectives on the world's navies. Flipping through Jane's for 1898 or 1906 or 1939, you are seeing through the eyes of history. Unfortunately, most past editions are no longer in print and can only be obtained via interlibrary loan, which can be slow and unreliable, or by purchasing used, which are scarce and expensive (starting at typically about double the list price of these volumes). To fill the gap, this is a facsimile edition produced from the best available scan. No hardcopy was available at the time of publication. Of the 604 pages in the scan, 10 were considered so deficient that they should not be included. They were replaced with blank pages, and glaring scanning artifacts on other pages were obscured. All pages were then subjected to a "preflight" image manipulation that increased page size from the scanned size of approximately 7.8 x 9" (page sizes vary in the scan) to an 11 x 8.5 landscape format. The preflight also programmatically removed excess white space from the margins. The net effect is that the 594 content-bearing facsimile pages are easier to read and larger than their scanned progenitors. Because of a printer's limitation of no more than 400 pages for this trim size, the books were broken into two volumes, this first one containing the front matter and the navies of England, France, Germany, and Russia. The complete PDF was then passed through an "AI" text summarization tool which produced concise summaries of each page. The page summaries are provided as a whole in the front matter and comprise about 40 pages split over the two volumes Reasonable minds may differ, of course, but I find that skimming these purely textual summaries provides some informational benefit to the reader; ir is a different experience from flipping through the image-laden complexity of the original layouts, and tends to highlight important points. Caveats registered, I hope you will enjoy this edition of Jane's as much as I did. It's full of unexpected gems, from the typography in the ads (I just love "Phosphor Bronze" on Page 1) to the ahead-of-its-time multimedia approach with pages that combine maps, photographs, sketches, and text. It is a glimpse into a bygone world, captured shortly before the beginning of the Dreadnought naval arms race that foreshadowed the calamity of the First World War. An essential purchase for any naval history enthusiast.

Ever since its first edition in 1898, Jane's Fighting Ships has been the go-to information source for navalists. As a result past issues of Jane's are an irreplaceable source of contemporaneous perspectives on the world's navies. Flipping through Jane's for 1898 or 1906 or 1939, you are seeing through the eyes of history. Unfortunately, most past editions are no longer in print and can only be obtained by purchasing used copies, which can be expensive and scarce, or via interlibrary loan, which can be slow and unreliable. The World's Warships were condensed wartime versions of the full editions of Jane's Fighting Ships that provided lists of ships by class and name, photographs, and basic particulars such as number of guns, while omitting the detailed technical information found in Fighting Ships. The 1915 edition was published in a 5.50 x 4.10" landscape format. Unfortunately, this likably compact format is not available from the large US print-on-demand vendors, so this reprint is published in 11" x 8.5" landscape with page images expanded to fit. This edition is annotated with a contemporary photograph of Fred T. Jane as a young man; a modern photograph of the "blue plaque" historical marker placed at the site of his residence in Southsea; and a second, modern preface written in 2022 from the point of view of the AI spirit of Fred T. Jane.115 photographs and illustrations.

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

In this satire of Victorian "scientific romance," a handsome but not too bright medical student is transported to Venus and caught in a struggle between humanoids and giant bug-like creatures. He faces blinding sunlight, rampaging aliens, vivisectionists, and mind-numbing discourses on science in his quest to return to Earth

An influential work on naval strategy, The Influence of Sea Power on History (1890) by Alfred Mahan, an American naval officer, had been instrumental in reshaping military tactics in navies all around the world. Its central idea was that a nation's success was determined by its 'sea power' - its ability to command the oceans with a large fleet. Frederick Thomas Jane (1865–1916), the founding editor of All the World's Fighting Ships and All the World's Airships (which continue to this day), here recounts historical battles to argue that other factors were as crucial, if not more, in determining military outcomes. In this daring and astute critique of Mahan's work, Jane proposes that 'fitness to win' played an essential role in securing victory. First published in 1906, this work is a thought-provoking contribution to the debate that influenced the naval arms race in the period before the First World War.