Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Learning about the Treaty Era - Introductory book recommendations" video.

  1. Book recommendations are always welcome. What I have found is, often, reading on a topic produces more questions, because there often seem to be things left out. One fact does not knit tightly with the next fact in the narrative. How could the Washington treaty regard Hood as "post Jutland", but Tennessee and California are "pre-Jutland"? The narrative about the KGVs having 14" guns made no sense. I went through books by Garzke, Raven, and Friedman, before I was satisfied that the decision to go to 14" was driven by First Sea Lord Chatfield, and his embrace of the "more smaller guns equals more hits" theory, and I many have only picked up on that as the pivot because I have studied the row in the USN over going from 14" to 16" in 1916. Has anyone written an in-depth analysis of the story of the Greek battleship Salamis? I thumbed through Friedman on WWI naval weapons, and found that the German 30.5cm/50 mount would have fit almost perfectly, being designed for a barbette less than 1.5" smaller in diameter than what Salamis was built for. Why didn't the Germans do that? I will be chasing these questions for years.
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