This book offers in one place, substantial information about the battleships of World War Two. A companion to his earlier work on cruisers, I was most impressed by a number of rare photographs that I have not seen before in other books covering the subject.
As a survey of the subject, this offers quite a bit of information. Of course, there are other books that delve into much more detail but you'd have to buy four or five books.
The only disappointment in this book were the line drawings. There were imprecise and not up to par with the drawing of the author's previous book on cruisers. In addition, the gray color of the line drawings were distracting.
Hopefully all the author's books will be combined into one comprehensive reprint, as it is diffcult to find his earlier work on destroyers.