Kaigun : strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable history of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new study explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the
eBook, English, 2012
First Naval Institute Press paperback edition
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 2012