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I've really just scanned it - it's number 3 in the stack for me to read. It seems to concentrate on battleship surface gunnery to the exclusion of all else. In other words, there's little or nothing about secondary or AA fire control, at least as far as I have been able to find. For example, my quick perusal didn't find any AA information, so I checked the index for "HACS", "Mark 37" and "Type 94" and found nothing.

dmilford wrote:

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My copy turned up today.

Good, then you can write the review! ;-))

Having just finished reading this latest effort by Dr. Friedman, my two-bits worth is "don't buy it unless all you're looking for is the mark & mod of a piece of fire control equipment."

First off, the title is completely misleading. It should have been called "Dreadnought Fire Control" or something like that. There's very little else in the book outside of that area. Secondly, there's much about the history of the various systems (Dreyer, Pollen, Ford, etc. all get capsule summaries), which is typical of other works by this author, but there's little about how the gear was actually used by the crewmen who ran it. This may be the result of the author's usual concentration on "official documents" to the exclusion of, if not a complete lack of interest in, finding personal anecdotes by anyone who actually had to operate the gear. If you've read other Friedman books, then you probably understand what I mean.

Very disappointing work.