Military Model Scene

Title: Warship 2024
Editor: John Jordan
Publisher: Osprey
ISBN: 978-1-4728-6330-0

The 2024 edition of Warship, a collection of features on the design and service careers of a variety of types of vessel, from different countries around the world. A 224-page hard-cover book.
There are 11 main articles, plus a section of Warship Notes, covering a number of smaller topics, along with a number of recent book reviews. The lead article gives us the details of the Japanese Nagato and Mutsu battleships, their first 16in gun armed vessels. Two other articles also cover Japanese shops, with the Escort Destroyers of the Matsu and Tachibana classes, plus the story of the Orel, a Russian ship captured through the Battle of Tsushima in 1904, after which it was taken into Japanese service as the Iwami. Then there is the French battleship Bouvet, with its' rounded hull shape, that looks so unusual compared to modern warships. She was sunk off Gallipoli in March 1915. Other topics include modern day British Fishery Protection vessels, Mussolini's Italian mini-subs, the German sail-powered commerce raider, SMS Seeadler, French air-defence frigates Suffren and Duquesne, early Soviet flotilla leaders, Tashkent and her successors while the book is rounded off with a Warship Gallery of major Soviet ships during the Cold War period of 1960 to 1990 and lots more.
A collection of features involving some 16 authors, including the editor and assistant editor. Lots of archive photos to illustrate all the articles throughout the book, and written by people who know their subjects well. Mostly looking at historical topics rather than modern navies, except for the one on modern Royal Navy Fishery Protection vessels. Some interesting reading I felt, and covering some ships I knew little about beforehand.
Thanks to Osprey for the review copy.

Robin