Modern physical metallurgy have served throughout the world as a standard undergraduate textbook on metals and alloys. These citations are provided at the end of the page for further reading. The first edition had approximately one thousand pages in a single volume. This is the fourth edition of a work which first appeared in 1965.
Coming in at 800 pages even, this book is a thorough study of the principles behind mechanical metallurgy and is appropriate for both students in the field and practicing engineers.