Japanese Battleships, 1897-1945: A Photographic Archive

Rare images of the Imperial Japanese Navy's fleet before it was almost completely destroyed in World War II.

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 to the final destruc...