By Brian Lavery
From Baird Maritime:
It is interesting and instructive that such a distinguished maritime historian as Brian Lavery has produced a book on such humble vessels as landing craft.
We are fortunate, though, that he did. Small and humble, indeed disposable, they may be but they have been incredibly important in twentieth century naval operations.
Nowadays, while helicopters and hovercraft are often used to move assault troops from ship to shore, landing craft are still used extensively to move both troops and vehicles. They may now be constructed of aluminium or plastic composites rather than steel protected timber. They may have diesel engines and waterjets rather than petrol engines and conventional propellers in tunnels. They are certainly significantly faster. However conceptually, they are the same.
The author describes them well, from their beginnings in 1940 to the conclusion of the Second World War. He describes them very comprehensively.
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