Japanese Carriers and Victory in the Pacific: The Yamamoto Option

by Martin Stansfeld

Japanese Carriers and Victory in the Pacific focuses on the pre-war debate between building a new generation of super-battleships or adopting aircraft carriers as the capital ships of the future. An Asian power in particular sees carriers as a way of challenging the USA and the colonial empires initially losing the contest yet coming out all right in the Cold War aftermath. Martin Stansfeld examines the much-overlooked genesis of Japan's so-called...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399010115
• ISBN13: 9781399010115
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"