The Japanese Battleship Yamato

by Carlo Cestra

The Yamato Battleship was the lead ship of the Yamato class of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province on the Kii peninsula, she was the first of four designed ships and was the heaviest, largest, and most powerful battleship ever built, displacing about 72000 tons at full load and armed with nine 46-cm Type 94 main guns. Yamato exceeded other country battleships not only by the displacement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8365437317
• ISBN13: 9788365437310
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Kagero
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 11.6"