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Reading recommendations for interwar carrier history

John Jordan's treaty-era surveys and Institution of Naval Architects papers provide reading on carriers of the 1920s and 1930s.

Question

What supplemental reading is useful for studying aircraft carriers of the 1920s and 1930s?

Short answer

Start with John Jordan's Warships After Washington and Warships After London, then use the Institution of Naval Architects papers and specialist studies of Japanese and American carriers.

Notes

John Jordan's Warships After Washington and Warships After London are recommended for background on carriers of the 1920s and 1930s. Institution of Naval Architects papers supply much of the technical material used here. Further material concerns Japanese and American aircraft carriers, although no additional titles are specified in this answer.