Low, iron-like silhouettes, angular superstructures... The British battleships of the King George V class are much less impressive in appearance than the proportional and imposing German battleships, or the original French ones, and at first glance seem much less interesting. However, It was these ships that became the basis of the naval artillery power of the British Empire during the Second World War. It was with their participation that two of the four battleships were sunk, destroyed mainly by artillery fire from large-caliber guns during 6 years of battles on all the oceans and seas of the world. generations of English capital ships, new and very heavily protected German ships, the Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, fell, while the battle cruiser Kirishima and the battleship Fuso, which perished in unequal battles in the Pacific, were weakly armored, outdated ships of the 5th King. became the largest series of battleships of the "Washington" type and the last massive large ships of the "mistress of the seas". Note. OCR: the publication was released in the format of the "Warships of the World"/"Ships and Battles" series, but by a different publisher.