CreateSpace, 2019. — 215 p. "Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians” - Japanese political slogan in the 1850s and 1860. Less than twenty years after commodore Perry steamed into Yokohama bay, Japan had gone from an isolated medieval feudal society into the beginning of a transformation that would catapult it into one of the most powerful forces of the 20th century. Even...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 84 p. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the IJN's Combined Fleet during the Guadalcanal and Solomons campaigns, when it was reorganized and was forced to fight a grinding battle of attrition against the US...
Illustrator Laurier Jim. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 84 p. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of the most formidable navies in the world, and its combat power was concentrated into one force, the Combined Fleet. In the months that followed Pearl Harbor it enjoyed an unrivaled string of victories, shattering American, British, Australian, and Dutch...