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

Now in paperback for the first time, this classic history of WWII was a recipient of the Society for Military History's 1999 Distinguished Book Award. It documents the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire. Unrivaled in its breadth and attention to detail, this important history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the Japanese navy's thinking about naval warfare.