{"product_id":"9781472869579-nagato-class-battleships-1920-46","title":"Nagato-class Battleships 1920–46","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Imperial Japanese Navy's super-dreadnoughts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eillustrated study of Japan’s Nagato-class battleships: the IJN’s powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eillustrated study of Japan’s Nagato-class battleships: the IJN’s powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with the author’s much-acclaimed 3D reconstructions, naval researcher Stefan Draminski offers a technical and operational study of \u003ci\u003eNagato \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMutsu\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan’s most powerful battleships of the dreadnought era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were the world’s first battleships to mount 16-inch guns, and signalled Japan’s determination to build a fleet that qualitatively outmatched the world’s leading navies. Entering service in the 1920s, they would be heavily modernized before the outbreak of the Pacific War, which \u003ci\u003eNagato \u003c\/i\u003ewould start as Yamamoto’s flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack. Both ships were present at the Battle of Midway, and though \u003ci\u003eMutsu \u003c\/i\u003ewould be sunk by a magazine explosion in 1943,  \u003ci\u003eN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eagato \u003c\/i\u003efought at Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf, before being modified again and moored at Yokosuka as an antiaircraft battery. The last Japanese battleship afloat on VJ-Day, \u003ci\u003eNagato \u003c\/i\u003ewas sunk in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the \u003ci\u003eCrossroads \u003c\/i\u003enuclear test. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Drawing on Japanese-language sources and original documentation, this is a concisely detailed account of these formidable battleships, superbly illustrated with archive photos and artwork showing the ships through their careers and in action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57517298319734,"sku":"9781472869579","price":10.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40513488_d8caa902-2405-4053-bb63-0d37eb5e6daf.jpg?v=1774513335","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472869579-nagato-class-battleships-1920-46","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}