| ID: | 17751 |
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| Entry Text: | O'Connell, Robert L. Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Batteship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy. Boulder: Westview; New York: Oxford UP, 1991, 1993, xiv, 409 pp. Controversial; critical & irreverent toward modern battleship; "myth of indestructability"; thesis: never an effective weapon. |