Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Press, 1997. 661pp/illus/charts/maps. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the navy's thinking about naval warfare and how to plan for it. Focusing primarily on the much-neglected period between the world wars, two widely esteemed historians persuasively explain how the Japanese failed to prepare properly for the war in the Pacific despite an arguable advantage in capability. Maintaining the highest literary standards and supplemented by a dazzling array of charts, diagrams, drawings, and photographs, this landmark work provides much important information not available in any other English-language source. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.