US Navy Atlanta-class Light Cruisers 1940–49 literature Both are packed with details

Both are packed with details to spot and discuss – perfect for hours of interactive fun

or a painful and often embarrassing display of Homo sapiens’ inability to plan or communicate

as told by one of the liner’s foremost historians

see the churning of longshore currents

and a new chapter on crossings to and from England and Wales

US Navy Atlanta-class Light Cruisers 1940–49 literature Both are packed with detailsA comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships. In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The Atlantas could provide antiaircraft support, lead and launch torpedo attacks, serve as antisubmarine vessels, and outgun other light warships in a surface