Brook Peter. Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships, 1867 - 1927

Gravesend: World Ship Society, 1999. — 243 p. — ISBN: 0-905617-89-4A compendium of warships built on the Tyne by Armstrong Works between 1867 and 1927, from gunboats to dreadnoughts. This World Ship Society book provides technical information on all of Armstrong's ships built 1867 - 1927, in a clear and easy reading. The ships are arranged in type, and ranged from the earliest Rendel gunboats built in the 1860's to the last ship built by Armstrong, the HMS Nelson built after WWI. Each entry has a detailed summary of the ship type and relevant technical information with associated tables of data.
Peter Brook is a world-renowned theater director, staging innovative productions of the works of famous playwrights. A native of London, he has been based in France since the 1970s. Peter Brook's parents were immigrant scientists from Russia. A precocious child with a distaste for formal education but a love of learning, Brook performed his own four-hour version of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the age of seven. After spending two years in Switzerland recovering from a glandular infection, Brook became one of the youngest undergraduates at Oxford University. At the same time he directed his first play in London, a production of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Brook made his directing debut at the Stratford Theatre at the age of 21, with a production of Love's Labours Lost.