Philippe CaressePhilippe Caresse was born into a naval family in 1964 and joined the French Navy in 1982, serving in the destroyer d'Estrées. He has published an extensive range of ship monographs on the French, German, U.S., and Japanese navies from the late-ninetenth century to the Second World War, and is co-author with John Jordan of French Battleships of World War One (2017) and French Armoured Cruisers. He is the harbormaster of a marina on the Côte d'Azur. Read More Read Less