{"product_id":"nagato-class-battleships-192046-by-stefan-draminski-9781472869579","title":"Nagato-class Battleships 1920–46","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn illustrated study of Japan’s Nagato-class battleships: the IJN’s powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernised to fight in World War II.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with the author’s much-acclaimed 3D reconstructions, naval researcher Stefan Draminski offers a technical and operational study of \u003ci\u003eNagato\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMutsu\u003c\/i\u003e, Japan’s most powerful battleships of the dreadnought era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 modernised before the outbreak of the Pacific War, which \u003ci\u003eNagato\u003c\/i\u003e would start as Yamamoto’s flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth ships were present at the Battle of Midway, and though \u003ci\u003eMutsu\u003c\/i\u003e would be sunk by a magazine explosion in 1943, \u003ci\u003eNagato\u003c\/i\u003e fought 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\u003e was sunk in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e nuclear test.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47664170008812,"sku":"9781472869579","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472869579-nagato-class-battleships-1920-46.jpg?v=1779661070","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/nagato-class-battleships-192046-by-stefan-draminski-9781472869579","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}