A short but concise article in Mer et Marine (in French) about the US Navy, by Bernard Prézelin, editor of Combat Fleets of the World:

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/focus-lus-navy-toute-puissante-pour-de-nombreuses-annees-encore

... by Bernard Prézelin, editor of Combat Fleets of the World

Must be just the French edition? Because the editor is ordinarily Eric Wertheim.

I appointed a sort of explanation here (mainly in French) some two months ago, and I was very surprised about it:

http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/topic/19924-flottes-de-combatcombat-fleets-of-the-world/?hl=%2Bflottes+%2Bcombat

 

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A link to the Flottes de Combat (from 1988 published also in English by the Naval Institute Press as Combat Fleets of the World) history (in French):

 

http://www.netmarine...s/fdc/index.htm

 

 

 

A link to the 1914 issue in Gallica (the French virtual national library), of difficult navigation:

 

http://gallica.bnf.f...ottes de combat

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But I'm not sure about if they are very similar books or not ...