In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force…
"Mitsuo Fuchida was the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of major events, his life's story is also one of a man swept along by his times. Reared in the vanished culture of ear…
"By October 1944, Japan was fighting for her life. Her fuel reserves and food supply were running out. Most of her fleet lay at the bottom of the Pacific. What remained of her once vaunted air power was hunted quarry in skies ruled by American fighter planes." "Now the unstoppab…
A study drawing on firsthand interviews with the few remaining survivors of Japan's kamikaze corps reveals the lives, attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets of former kamikaze pilots who never completed their suicidal missions.
A study drawing on firsthand interviews with the few remaining survivors of Japan's kamikaze corps reveals the lives, attitudes, beliefs, and mindsets of former kamikaze pilots who never completed their suicidal missions.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Serving as a sequel to Kaigun, the prize-winning study of the surface and sub-surface forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this work illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific War. It provides…
This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy s essential strengths and weaknesses,…
The Japanese submarine force and World War II
by Boyd, Carl, Yoshida, Akihiko
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