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After decades of study, the authors are  the world's leading experts, and their work challenges many accepted views, while greatly expanding the general understanding of the subject.The fruits of their labours are presented in the form of exquisite colour illustrations of every scheme and variation for which evidence is available. For major ships these are sometimes only months apart, giving as complete a representation of their camouflage history as possible. There are no speculative views - if, for example, only the starboard side is known, there is no attempt to 'reconstruct' a port side - so all information is reliable. This volume covers destroyers and all larger ships during the early war years, with a second part devoted to 1942-45 planned for completion in 2013. 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