The Hybrid Warship

Layman, R.D. and S. McLaughlin: 1991 UK, hardcover with dust jacket, 223 pages, illustrated with photos and plans. This comprehensive naval history chronicles the seventy-year global quest by ship designers to merge heavy artillery and aviation capabilities into a single, versatile vessel. It evaluates both the conceptual paper projects and the actual operational realities of these vessels, illustrating why the tactical compromises of combining battleships and aircraft carriers ultimately proved technically flawed and impractical. ISBN 9780851775555 In very good condition