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| 3963 | Japanese Battleships and Cruisers (Navies of the Second World War. 152p., illus. London: Macdonald, 1964. ISBN: 0356014754.
One of the series of small standard guides, giving technical details by class of each vessel. |
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| 3964 | Japanese Naval Vessels of World War II as seen by US Naval Intelligence, [with an] introduction by A. D. Baker III. 440p., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1987. ISBN: 0853688478.
A profusely illustrated and comprehensive contemporary guide to the Japanese Navy and its equipment. |
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| 3965 | Warships and Aircraft of Japan. 64p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [c.1943].
A collection of photographs illustrating ships and aircraft of the Japanese Navy and Army. |
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| 3966 | ANDRIEU D'ALBAS, E. M. A. Death of a Navy: The Fleets of the Mikado in the Second World War, 1941–1945. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale; New York: Devin-Adair, 1957.
The Japanese Fleets' major encounters were with the Americans, so that British and Australian ships feature on very few pages. Their contributions toward the end of the war are ignored. |
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| 3967 | BILLINGS, Richard N. Battleground Atlantic: How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of World War II. v, 311p., bibliog., index. New York: NAL, 2006. ISBN: 9780451220455.
The dramatised story of a Japanese submarine which attempted an escape from Germany carrying gold and uranium in mid-1944. |
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| 3968 | BOYD, Carl, & YOSHIDA, Akihiko. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. xiv, 273p., bibliog., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife; Annapolis: NIP, 1996. ISBN: 1853107646.
An able review of the doctrinal, tactical, and technical failures of a force which performed with great bravery. |
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| 3969 | CLARKE, Hugh V., & YAMASHITA, Takeo. To Sydney by Stealth. 129p., illus. Sydney: Horwitz, 1966.
The Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney harbour failed narrowly. This describes the raid and gives a general background account of the Japanese midget submarine programme. A revised version was published by Angus & Robertson in 1978 as Fire One. ISBN: 0207136203. |
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| 3970 | DATE, John C. Japanese "A" Class Midget Submarines and Their Daring Attacks on Pearl Harbour . . . 7 December 1941, Diego Suarez . . .30 May 1942, Sydney Harbour . . . 31 May 1942 (Naval Historical Society of Australia, Monograph 65). 22p., bibliog., illus. Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1998.
A detailed account of the attacks. |
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| 3971 | FELTON, Mark. Slaughter at Sea: The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes. ix, 213p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2007. ISBN: 1844156478.
The author records a plethora of crimes which make chilling reading. These range from the execution of POWs, the abandonment of survivors to the elements and certain starvation, to the infamous Hell Ships. The author who lives in the Far East examines the different culture that led to these frequent and appalling atrocities. |
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| 3972 | FUKUI, Shizuo. Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II. xx, 172p., illus. Annapolis: NIP, 1991; London: Greenhill, 1992. ISBN: 1853671258.
The author was a former Lieutenant Commander Imperial Navy constructor. This work was originally written as a report for the Occupation authorities as a guide to the ships surrendered by Japan and published by the Administrative Division of the Second Demobilization Bureau. The main work consists of line drawings of ships arranged by type, with details on history and fate. The work in its reprinted form also has an introduction and some photographs taken at the end of the war for the US Navy. |
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| 3973 | HASHIMOTO, Mochitsura. Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet 1942–45. xi, 218p., illus., index. London: Cassell; New York: Holt, 1954.
By a former Japanese submariner and mainly concerned with the fight against US ships. Some limited information on Japanese operations in the Indian Ocean. |
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| 3974 | HUMBLE, Richard. Japanese High Seas Fleet (Pan/ Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. Weapons Book). 160p., bibliog., illus. London: Pan/Ballantine, 1974. ISBN: 0330241044.
Notably well-illustrated, but with only a brief record of the Japanese fight with the non-American Allies. |
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| 3975 | JENTSCHURA, Hansgeorg, JUNG, Dieter, & MICKEL, Peter. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869–1945. 284p., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1977. ISBN: 0853681511.
This revision of a 1970 German work gives an excellent review of the Japanese Fleet. |
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| 3976 | MILLOT, Bernard. Divine Thunder: The Life and Death of the Kamikazes. v, 243p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macdonald, 1971. ISBN: 0356038564 The story of these attacks and the philosophy behind them. Concentrates on the American Fleet, which suffered most damage. |
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| 3977 | WARNER, Peggy, & SENO, Sadao. The Coffin Boats: Japanese Midget Submarine Operations in the Second World War. xii, 206p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1986. ISBN: 0436563304.
The first full account of the raids on Diego Suarez and Sydney and of their support for the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| 3978 | WATTS, Anthony J., & GORDON, Brian G. The Imperial Japanese Navy. xiv, 529p., illus., index. London: Macdonald; Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. ISBN: 0356030458.
A standard source of information. |
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| 3979 | British, French and German Warships at a Glance. [2], 30p., illus. [London]: Sampson Low & Co., [1940].
Silhouettes with brief descriptive notes. Several editions with minor amendments appeared throughout 1940. The seventh added the Italian Navy. |
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| 3980 | Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. viii, 456p., illus., index. London: Conway, 1980; Annapolis: NIP, 1981. ISBN: 0851771467.
A single volume covering every warship from the Washington Treaty to the end of the wartime construction programmes, plus surviving earlier ships. Over 1,000 photographs and drawings are combined with information from reliable modern sources, covering all the Navies of the world. |
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| 3981 | Jane's Fighting Ships. Various paginations, illus., index. London: Sampson Low, annual volumes.
The standard guide to the warships of the world. |
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| 3982 | Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. 320p., illus. London: Bracken Books, 1989. ISBN: 185170194X.
Essentially a reprint of the 1946-47 edition but with addenda and corrigenda integrated and in portrait format. |
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