Ugly Ducklings: Japan's WWII Liberty Type Standard Ships Tapa dura - 2003

St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. VG/VG Pages: 180.. 2003. Hardcover..

Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 2003. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Vanwell Publishing Limited, St. Catherines, ON 2003, first edition, xiv, 180 p. ill. b/w plans and photographs, includes index. The book profiles the Japanese Type A standard ship, with fleet owners' Lists, comparisons with the Allied standard ship designs and a brief history of the 140 ships built.

E-382: Vanwell Publishing Ltd.. Very Good. 2003. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2003. 180 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Borrowing the name given to the Allied Liberty Ships when they first came out, this study details Japan's feverish effort to build a large fleet of so-called Standard Ships to counter the severe losses sustained by her merchant fleet in the Pacific War. The Emergency Standard Ship came at a time when expedience took precedence over good construction standards. Considered the equivalent of the Liberty Ships, the Type-A Standard Ship is the focus of this book with the author describing the Zaibatsu business conglomerate that produced… Leer más

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