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

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 confron…

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