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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- Japan
- Book Series
- Zenith Military Classics Ser.
- Original Language
- Japanese
- ISBN
- 9784770024008
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Kodansha America, Incorporated
ISBN-10
4770024002
ISBN-13
9784770024008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1157863
Product Key Features
Book Title
Battleship Musashi : the Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Military / World War II
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
5.8 in
Item Width
8.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
623.8252
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
This grand and gripping tale reveals the human drama behind the construction and destruction of World War II's most powerful battleship., Presents the complete history of the Japanese World War II battleship, the Musashi. The book covers all details, from the planning and making of the ship to its final sinking at Leyte Gulf in 1944. Admiral lsoroku Yamamoto, the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, said that the three great follies of the world were the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, and the battleship Musashi. Yamamoto understood that sheer size and firepower would not be decisive factors in the battle for naval supremacy in the Pacific. The Musashi was massive-upright it would have, Admiral lsoroku Yamamoto, the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, said that the three great follies of the world were the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, and the battleship Musashi. Yamamoto understood that sheer size and firepower would not be decisive factors in the battle for naval supremacy in the Pacific. The Musashi was massive-upright it would have approached the size of the Chrysler Building. Outfitted with eighteen-inch armor plating and nine eighteen-inch guns, the largest ever mounted on a warship, the Musashi was considered by its creators to be invincible and unsinkable. Yet during its two years of active duty with the Combined Fleet, it never fired a single shot against another ship. It was sunk, as Yamamoto had predicted, by torpedoes and bombs. Akira Yoshimura's dramatic reconstruction of the birth of the Musashi portrays a nation preparing for total war. Under these extreme conditions, courage, genius, and integrity coexisted with brutality, folly, and paranoia. During the more than four years it took to build and outfit it, shipyard engineers and their Navy mentors were faced with seemingly insurmountable technical problems and plagued by natural calamities and the constant fear of espionage. The solutions they found to each successive crisis were sometimes brilliant, sometimes absurd. Battleship Musashi is a tribute to the men who achieved this engineering marvel and a testament to the excesses of bureaucratic militarism., Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, said that the three great follies of the world were the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, and the battleship Musashi. Yamamoto understood that sheer size and fire-power would not be decisive factors in the battle for naval supremacy in the Pacific.
LC Classification Number
V815.5
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