Derek Law Bibliography

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JORDAN, John. Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930. xiv, 335 p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2011; Annapolis: NIP, 2012. ISBN: 9781848321175.

The Washington Treaty of 1922 agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. The approach of this book is novel in combining coverage of the political and strategic background of the treaty and the subsequent London Treaty of 1930 with analysis of exactly how the navies of Britain, the USA, Japan, France and Italy responded.