The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood .
But at the Battle of Taranto in 1940 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, carrier-borne aircraft made a decisive display of superior.
Tactically, it dominated every sea battle.
Strategically, it determined a war\'s outcome.
During its reign from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, the battleship was the most powerful weapon of war known to man.
The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood