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Japanese Submarine Aircraft. By Tadeusz Januszewski.  Mushroom Model Publications; ISBN: 8391632725
	The first English language book to describe in detail the aircraft carried by Japan's extensive submarine fleet in World War Two. More than any other nation, Japan designed, built and operated aircraft launched from submarines, using them for reconnaissance and also (uniquely) for bombing and attack missions. This fascinating history of an under-published aspect of World War  Two aviation warfare is illustrated with photographs, scale plans and full colour illustrations.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 144 pages (31 March, 2002)

 

Sunburst: The Rise of the Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by Mark R. Peattie.  United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557504326
	This is the vivid account of the Imperial Japanese Navy and its Naval Air Force. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 272 pages (February 2002)

 
 

Midway, the Japanese story. By Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya Aces Agains. Cassell Military; ISBN: 0304361542. Our Price: £6.99
	The most important battle of the Pacific war, told from the Japanese point of view Based on top secret documents destroyed at the end of the Second World War THE classic account of aircraft carriers in action, written by the most senior Japanese naval aviators to survive the war  Click here to view details
Paperback (9 May, 2002)
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Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class: The Admiral Hipper, Blucher, Prince Eugen,Seydlitz and Lutzow . by Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Geoffrey Brooks (Translator) . Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 155750332X.
	Book about the Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class Click here to view details
Hardcover - 240 pages (April 2001)
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The Death of "The Scharnhorst". By John Winton. Cassell Military; ISBN: 0304355208.
	This volume provides a comprehensively-researched account of how the Royal Navy finally tracked down, cornered and sank one of the most famous and dangerous ships of World War II, the German battle-cruiser The Scharnhorst.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 192 pages Revised Ed (7 December, 2000)
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Hitler's Battleships by Edwyn A. Gray. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503435
	This book offers great information on the actions and events which all of Hitler's battleships were involved in during WW2.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 224 pages (November 1999)
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Bluejacket Books) by Yoshida Mitsuru, Richard H. Minear (Translator), Mitsuru Yoshida. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505446
	Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 152 pages  (April 1999)

 

Battleship "Scharnhorst" . By Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Brassey's: Conway Maritime; ISBN: 0851777481.
	The first in a series designed for modellers, this is a complete guide to the battleship "Scharnhorst", from original ship to detailed model. The battlecruiser of 31,000 tons, nearly always operated with her sister ship "Gneisenau". Such was the threat posed by these ships to the Allies tht they were continually attacked by British aircraft. On one outing, they sank 22 merchant ships from one convoy which had dispersed. "Scharnhorst" took part in a dramatic escape up the English Channel from Brest to Germany. Finally, cornered between two groups of British warships of Norway's North Cape, she was sunk in a night action in December 1943.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 64 pages (October 1998)
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Battleships of the Bismarck Class . by Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke, Geoffrey Brooks (Translator). Greenhill Books; ISBN: 185367320X.
	This is about the WW2 batleships of the Bismarck class. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 158 pages (April 1998)
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Battleship "Tirpitz". by Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke . Brassey's: Conway Maritime; ISBN: 085177749X.
	The second in a series designed for modellers, this is a complete guide to the German battleship "Tirpitz", from original ship to detailed model. The "Tirpitz" weighed 42,500 tonnes and was the sister ship of "Bismarck". For three years, she was based in Norwegian waters posing a contniuous threat to British convoys to Northern Russia. She only once fired her heavy guns in anger and that was during a raid on Spitzbergen in September 1943. Anchored deep in a Norwegian fjord, she was finally cripled by the Fleet Ar Arm in 1944, and eventually sunk by high-level bombing by the Royal Air Force.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 56 pages (March 1998)
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Zero/Combat & Development History of Japan's Legendary Mitsubishi A6m Zero Fighter (Motorbooks International Warbird History)  by Robert C. Mikesh. Motorbooks International; ISBN: 087938915X
	Mikesh is that rare combination of combat pilot (he was a FAC during the Vietnam War) and historian (former curator at the Natl Air & Space Museum). Japanese military aviation is his speciality, and this book is the definitive history of Japan's remarkable Zero fighter. Click here to view details
(Paperback - 128 pages July 1994)

 

Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II by Shizuo Fukul (Compiler), Christian W. Beilstein (Editor), Shizuo Fukui, John B. Lundstrom (Illustrator). United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557502749
	A detailed catalogue of ships surrendered to the US, compiled byImperial Japanese Navy Constructor Fukui in 1945, and published by US Naval intelligence in 1947. For the new edition, 100 photos augment the original line drawings, and an introduction explains the historical context.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 172 pages  (May 1992)

 

Battleship: Gneisenau . By Siegfried Breyer. Schiffer Publishing; ISBN: 0887402909.
	This is about the mighty German warship which haunted the english Channel in 1941, and target to a number of daring Fleet Air Arm attacks. Click here to view details
Paperback - 48 pages (1 June, 1991)
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Battleship: Scharnhorst . By Siegfried Breyer. Schiffer Publishing; ISBN: 0887402917.
	This is about the mighty German warship which haunted the English Channel in 1941, and later in the Arctic Fiords, and target to a number of daring Fleet Air Arm attacks. Click here to view details
Paperback - 48 pages (1 June, 1991)
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The German Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin. by Siegfried Breyer. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 0887402429
	This book presents an account of the use and actions of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the pride of the Kriegsmarine German navy in WWII. Click here to view details
Paperback - 48 pages (July 1990)
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The Battleship: Tirpitz. By Siegfried Breyer. Schiffer Publishing; ISBN: 0887401848.
	This is about the mighty German battleship which haunted the Arctic Fiords in WW2, and target to a number of daring Fleet Air Arm attacks. Click here to view details
Paperback - 48 pages (1990)
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Shinano: The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supership by Joseph F. Enright, James W. Ryan. St Martins Mass Market Paper; ISBN: 0312909675
	Enright and Ryan describe in detail the stalking and sinking of Japan's secret "supercarrier." The book is structured with one chapter from the American perspective and the next from the Japanese. Capt. Enright's account of the night he sank the largest Japanese aircraft carrier ever built is superb! Click here to view details
Hardcover - (April 1988)

 

Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War by Rene J. Francillon. Brassey's: Putnam Aeronautical; ISBN: 0851778011
	The most significant types of aircraft operated by the Army and the Navy immediately before and during the Pacific War are described in the two main sections of this book, while a series of appendices provides information on less important Japanese military aircraft, foreign-designed aircraft operated by Japanese forces, aircraft carriers and tenders, aero-engines and aircraft   armament.  Click here to view details
Hardcover 548 pages 3d revised edition (26 February, 1987)
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Sink the "Haguro" !, Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War    John Winton . Seeley Service; ISBN: 0854221522
	About Japanese Haguro and the Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War Click here to view details
Hardcover (May 1979)

 
 

Titans of the Seas: The Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces During World War II by James H. Belote. HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060102780
	This is the vivid account of the Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces During World War II Click here to view details
Hardcover - May 1975

 

Build the Musashi : The Birth and Death of the World's Greatest Battleship by Akira Yoshimura. ISBN: 4770015798
	This is an easily readable, attention-holding account of the secret construction of one of the three largest ships ever built up to 1944. The author gives detailed insight into the naval architects, the naval commanders, shipyard workers, and ship's personnel who planned, built, commanded, and lived in the Musashi.  Click here to view details
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Japanese carrier air groups, 1941-45. by Rene J. Francillon. ISBN: 0850452953
	Details of the Pacific Air war and the Japanese carrier air groups 1941-1945. Click here to view details and [Order this book from US]
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