Sunburst: The Rise of the Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 - Hardcover

Peattie, Mark R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557504326 ISBN 13: 9781557504326

Publisher: Naval Inst Pr, 2001

Synopsis

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 the most detailed account yet available in English of Japan's naval air campaign over China from 1937 to 1941 and concludes with a revealing chapter on the utter destruction of Japanese naval air power by 1944, in the process explaining its essential strengths and weaknesses.

Author Mark Peattie traces the development of the Navy's land-based air power as well as the evolution of its carrier forces. He also treats all the salient aspects of the naval air service: training, personnel, tactics, doctrine, technology, and industrial base. In doing so, he combines data found in previous handbooks with important new information derived from Japanese language sources. The book's appendixes include biographic summaries of important personnel mentioned in the text, detailed drawings and data on Japanese carriers and naval aircraft, and information on Japanese naval air bases and land-based air groups as of 7 December 1941.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark R. Peattie is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Japanese history from Princeton University. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Kaigun.

Review:

"A landmark study ... readable, interesting, and essential to an understanding of World War II in the Pacific." -- Sea Power, January 2003

"Operationally, this is the most detailed English-language history of Japanese naval air operations over China yet penned." -- Choice, September 2002

"This excellent book benefits from the author's unique access to purely Japanese sources." -- Asia Pacific Shipping, October 2004

"Undoubtedly one of the most important books on WW II to appear in the last decade." -- Naval Aviation News, March-April 2003

One of the best naval books of 2002. -- Navy League's Almanac of Sea Power, 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1557504326
• ISBN 13: 9781557504326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364