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

Evans, David C; Peattie, Mark R:

ISBN 10: 0870211927 / ISBN 13: 9780870211928

Published by USA: Naval Institute Press, 1997

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An important new study providing information not available in any other English-language source. Hardcover book , dust jacket, 1st Ed, 1st printing, signed by the author to fep. Small quarto, xxv, 661pp, photographs, figures, maps, tables. Fep has author's inscription and signature, dated December 30, 1997 at top of fep. A few spots to foredge, slight smoky smell. A Very Good copy in near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 21946

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kaigun Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887 - 1941
• Publisher: USA: Naval Institute Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870211927
• ISBN 13: 9780870211928
• Binding: Fine
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

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Synopsis

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 and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable history of the navy's dizzying development, tactical triumphs, and humiliating defeat. Unrivaled in its breadth of coverage and attention to detail, this important new study 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, David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie, 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.

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Now in paperback for the first time, this classic history of WWII was a recipient of the Society for Military History's 1999 Distinguished Book Award. It documents the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire. Unrivaled in its breadth and attention to detail, this important history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the Japanese navy's thinking about naval warfare.