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An auxiliary platform during the First World War, the aircraft carrier became a Capital Ship during the Second World War, giving air power mobility and permanence in a theater far from land bases. Its impact on international relations became considerable due to its conventional or nuclear strike capability on the coastal bangs where most human activity is concentrated.

Along with the submarine, the aircraft carrier is the naval weapon system which, by its interference or presence, can influence decision-makers and events. As a tool of diplomatic and military gesticulation, the aircraft carrier carries or suspends violence, to impose, from the sea, a will on land. A symbol of power, it is, in essence, the emanation of a nation, its technical skills and its economic wealth.

Illustrated with numerous unpublished documents, this second, completely updated edition is the only synthesis published in French on the technical, political and operational history of aircraft carriers in the world.