The Falklands Factor (The Battle that Changed the Shape of Ships)
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Product Details
Author:
David Laurent Giles
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
360
Publisher:
Unicorn Publishing Group (May 30, 2025)
Imprint:
Unicorn Press Ltd
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781739164072
ISBN-10:
1739164075
Weight:
20.67oz
Dimensions:
6.125" x 9.25"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_06032026_P10163223_onix30_Complete-20260603.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$40.00
Pub Discount:
65
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$30.80
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
Discount Code:
A
Overview
After the failure of Britain’s latest air-defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: the S90 ‘Short Fat’ frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles. This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author’s forty-year hard-fought batt le with naval authorities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic to prove the virtues of his designs, which they had rejected on the basis of theory rather than fact, and then eventually to win substantial compensation aft er they covertly infringed his patents in two new classes of warship. With a Foreword by the late Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff ; Technical Appendices; Glossary and Dramatis Personae.
