Japanese Battleships, 1897-1945: A Photographic Archive (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781591145639)

This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The remarkable images, some very rare, constitute an archive that is almost without equal in the West. The book begins with the launch of Japan's first contemporary battleship, Yashima, and concludes with the final destruction of the fleet in the Pacific in 1945. In between these two milestones, Japan constructed the third largest navy in the world. All of the fleet's dreadnoughts saw action in World War II but only the Nagato survived the conflict. She subsequently became a test target in the Bikini A-bomb tests in 1946.

Author: R. A. Burt
ISBN-10: 1591145635
ISBN-13: 9781591145639
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.60h x 7.90w x 0.90d