Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

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Wherever possible the illustrations included in this book are credited to their originators or to the institutions which hold them for future generations. I have been collecting and reading books on naval subjects for over fifty years, which means that many of the authors whose works I quote left us many years ago. Others are still alive, but not even the editors of their last works can trace them.

When information has been discovered on the Internet, and the original source is either not stated or was unknown, I have not hesitated to reproduce the appropriate illustrations, lest they be lost to our common pool of knowledge with the disappearance of the website. If any of the authors and artists whom I have been unable to contact, even after extensive enquiries, see their work included in this book, it is with the aim of giving them full credit, and referring readers to find and browse their books with the same pleasure that they have given me.

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