Bøger af Witold Koszela

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place the technical description of of all the British Rodney and Nelson battleships. Author describes their technical aspects, precisely describing the differences among others. All the shi

The first of two volumes which tell the stories of and illustrate all the German battleships that were in Kriegsmarine service during WWII, complete with full technical specifications.

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German cruisers that were in Kriegsmarine service.

The British Airship Carrier HMS Furious is one of the most unusual units of the Second World War.

The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21st, 1957. Together with the twin "Foch", it was built on the basis of a project developed from the beginning of the 1950s, which included almost all of then novelties that were introduced in the construction of this type of ships. Therefore, she received, among others: a sloped flight deck with two lifts, mirror systems facilitating the approach to landing, means of observation enabling early detection of surface units and means of air attack, and modern catapults adapted to work with jet aircrafts with a large take-off mass. The length of the flight deck was 257 meters, the main runway was 165.5 meters long and 29.5 meters wide, with a deviation from the centre of the ship by 8 degrees. The hangar below it was 180 meters long and 22 meters wide. In more than forty years of service, which began on November 22, 1961, the "Clemenceau" performed countless tasks in both European and Pacific waters. She supported the activities of the land forces, incl. in former French colonies and during nuclear tests. Together with "Foch", she formed one of the strongest task force in the Mediterranean region and the waters of Western Europe.

Highly illustrated look at the ship in the years 1944-1945 including descriptions, technical data and professional drawings.

The rocket missile ORP Gen. T. Kosciuszko is currently one of the more valuable Polish Navy ships.Belonging to the American type Oliver Hazard Perry, together with the twin ship ORP Gen. K. Pulaski, he went under the white-and-red flag under an agreement between the governments of the United States and the Republic of Poland. The ship was built as USS Wadsworth with a tactical number FFG 9 at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in San Pedro, California.

The work on the design of future long-range active anti-aircraft and anti-submarine ship ¿ as it was initially determined ¿ was conducted by the Leningrad CKB-17 in close cooperation with OKB-938 led by N.I. Kamov. The author of the ship¿s design, which was given the number 1123 and the code ¿Kondor¿, was A.S. Sawiczew, and from 1967 ¿ A.W. Marinich. The main task of the ship was to search and destroy American nuclear submarines carrying ¿Polaris¿ ballistic missiles in the Antarctic Ocean and Barents Sea.