Название: Japanese Battleships 1897–1945
Автор: R A Burt
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322348
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 88,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
This photographic archive contains some 125 stunning images of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, many unfamiliar, some very rare. They constitute an archive that is pretty much without equal in publications in the West. The period covered is from the launch of Japan s first real contemporary battleship, Yashima, built by Armstrong s on the Tyne, up the final destruction of her fleet in the Pacific in 1945. During that time Japan built up the third largest navy in the world and, before the First World War, it was Britain that armed her at sea.