things that every ship biography should include—as the authors have done here. This formula condenses a tremendous amount of information into a short summary paragraph. Glasgow Museums, The Ship Models is the culmination of the good works of many people over many years. The text is written by Emily Malcolm, curator of the Glasgow Museums ship model collection, and Michael R. Harrison, historian, curator, and the Obed Macy Research Chair for the Nantucket Historical Association. Of note is Jim Dunn’s outstanding photography. This beautiful and important book is a testimonial to the “depth of care and feeling that ships and boats have inspired over generations,” as the foreword by John R. Hume notes. If you share that feeling for ship models, this book is for you. Kevin J. Foster Hyattsville, Maryland Warship Builders: An Industrial History of US Naval Shipbuilding, 1922– 1945 by Thomas Heinrich (Naval Institute
Press, Annapolis, MD, 2020, 360pp, illus, charts, notes, biblio, index, isbn 978-168247-537-9; $39.95hc) One of the most significant factors that led to Allied success in the Second
World War was absolute command of the seas. In his newest work, Warship Builders: An Industrial History of US Naval Shipbuilding, 1922–1945, Thomas Heinrich explores the growth and development of this key sector. He does not merely examine American warship construction, but also compares it to programs in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. The book delves into the composition of shipyards within the major combatants and the varied use of technology to explain how the United States was able to deliver a massive fleet that played a pivotal role in Allied success. Heinrich’s narrative is focused on five key elements. In the first section, he examines the decline and recovery of interwar shipbuilding. In the United States, overproduction in World War One and the Great Depression both served to diminish the tonnage produced in American shipyards. The net result was the disappearance of many small and medium-size shipyards, but the Big 3—New York Ship, Bethlehem Steel Fore River, and Newport News—
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