Dear readers,
I am pleased to welcome you to the Amazon detail page for
BB-67 MONTANA, U.S. Navy Battleship: Why She Matters Today 
BB-67 MONTANA, U.S. Navy Battleship: Why She Matters Today
This is one of my favorites in the ever-growing Nimble Books list. The cover looks terrific–very realistic, just as if the Navy had really built the U.S.S. Montana! The interior of the book includes:
- pictures and information about the various design concepts that were explored
- the specifications of the final Montana design
- color pictures of a beautiful 1:700 scale model of Montana by Imre Somogyi
- a beautiful color painting of Montana by author and artist Wayne Scarpaci
- a picture of her never-built 1920’s predecessor, BB-51 Montana
- an essay on "Why She Matters Today"; and
- a discussion of Senator Jon Tester’s efforts to get the U.S. Navy to name a capital ship after his home state of Montana.
In short, this presents a unique package of art and text devoted exclusively to one of the most interesting hypothetical ships ever designed.
I’m very happy to see that this book is selling well. I hope you enjoy it.
Cordially yours,
Fred Zimmerman
Publisher, Nimble Books LLC
P.S. if you are interested in reading other stuff about Montana, I recommend two major studies of U.S. battleships:
U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman and
Battleships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 (Battleships) by Garzke.
Both of these books rely on archival sources to give a highly technical history of the ten or twenty different designs that were considered for Montana. My book’s different in that I tackle the issue of "why do we care about this today" head-on.
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