Nagato-class Battleships 1920-46: The Imperial Japanese Navy's super-dreadnoughts

An illustrated study of Japan's Nagato-class battleships: the IJN's powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II.

Illustrated with the author's much-acclaimed 3D reconstructions, naval researcher Stefan Draminski offers a technical and operational study of Nagato and Mutsu, Japan's most powerful battleships of the dreadnought era.

They were the world's first battleships to mount 16-inch guns, and signalled Japan's determination to build a fleet that qu...