Battleship Musashi the making and sinking of the world's biggest battleship
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...
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Kodansha International
1999
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Senkan Musashi. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Battleship Musashi |b the making and sinking of the world's biggest battleship |c Akira Yoshimura ; translated by Vincent Murphy |
| 260 | |a Tokyo |a New York |b Kodansha International |c 1999 | ||
| 300 | |a 192 p. [8] p. of plates |b ill. |c 21 cm | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index | ||
| 500 | |a Translation of: Senkan Musashi | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Musashi (Battleship) |x History |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Naval operations, Japanese | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Philippine Sea, Battle of the, 1944 (June 19-21) | |
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