Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 400 p. A major work by one of Japan's leading naval historians, this book traces Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on Japan's rise as a sea power after the publication of his classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. Hailed by the British Admiralty, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the international bestseller also was...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 293 p. When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American naval historian and a Japanese mariner painstakingly recorded and evaluated a diverse array...
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1986. — 188 p. — ISBN: 0851773966. Japanese interest in submarines began with the Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904-1905. Both Russia and Japan purchased submarines from the USA, but these small craft were not used in combat. Japan continued to purchase foreign-built submarines and designs, and the Imperial Japanese Navy subsequently initiated...
Casper Publications, 2013. — 250 p. Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, the heart of Australia's premier city. It occurred at a time when Japan's Imperial Army was advancing on Port Moresby, and three weeks after the Battle of...
Casper Publications, 2013. — 250 p. Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, the heart of Australia's premier city. It occurred at a time when Japan's Imperial Army was advancing on Port Moresby, and three weeks after the Battle of...
Texas A&M University Press, 2016 — 240 p. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology SeriesIn the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 1941, five Imperial Japanese Navy submarines surfaced off the coast of Oahu. Secured to the decks of these vessels were secret weapons to be deployed for the first time in modern warfare: two-man midget submarines, intended to enter Pearl Harbor...
Texas A&M University Press, 2016 — 240 p. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology SeriesIn the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 1941, five Imperial Japanese Navy submarines surfaced off the coast of Oahu. Secured to the decks of these vessels were secret weapons to be deployed for the first time in modern warfare: two-man midget submarines, intended to enter Pearl Harbor...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 226 p. Even the most knowledgeable reader will be shocked by the extent of the crimes committed against servicemen and civilians revealed in this chilling new study. From the regular execution of POWs to the abandonment of survivors, Mark Felton takes a detailed look at this dark chapter in the history of the Japanese navy in World War II. Prior...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 224 p. After the staggering success of the Pearl Harbor surprise attack, the Japanese plotted to maintain the initiative and spread fear and panic among the civil population of the United States and Australasia. With his usual skilled research the author has uncovered numerous plans. Some like the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 224 p. After the staggering success of the Pearl Harbor surprise attack, the Japanese plotted to maintain the initiative and spread fear and panic among the civil population of the United States and Australasia. With his usual skilled research the author has uncovered numerous plans. Some like the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour and the...
Crown, 2013. — 496 p. The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time. In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified...
Crown, 2013. — 496 p. The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time. In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified...
Crown, 2013. — 496 p. The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time. In 1941, the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid--this time against New York City and Washington, DC. The classified...
Allen & Unwin, 2007. — 328 p. Three Japanese midget submarines, each carrying two torpedoes, made an attack in Sydney Harbor during the night of May 31 and June 1, 1942. Only one midget successfully launched its two torpedoes with one sinking the depot ship HMAS Kuttabul and killing 21 sailors. All six Japanese crewmen in the three midget submarines lost their lives in the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 276 p. What happened to Japan's submarines and what sort of fight did they put up? As far as Japan was concerned, the recent war was waged according to a rigid strategy. There was no detailed operational planning. It was a fight in which science had been ignored. In such circumstances the submarine, always highly vulnerable unless used...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 276 p. What happened to Japan's submarines and what sort of fight did they put up? As far as Japan was concerned, the recent war was waged according to a rigid strategy. There was no detailed operational planning. It was a fight in which science had been ignored. In such circumstances the submarine, always highly vulnerable unless used...
Casper Publications Pty Ltd, 2013. — 320 p. With few Japanese resources available, the authors would like to specifically acknowledge two authoritative references: The Japanese submarine force and World War 11 by Carl Boyd and Akhiko Yoshida (US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1995) and Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904-1945 by Mark Stille (Osprey Publishing,...
Potomac Books, 2020. — 288 p. In 1944 Allied codebreakers learned the Imperial Japanese Navy had dispatched the cargo submarine I-52 to occupied France with tons of military supplies and payment—in gold—for German assistance. I-52 undertook the mission as part of the Yanagi missions, a military program meant to alleviate Japan’s desperate need for military material and...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 363 p. In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a manned suicide submarine--had succeeded in its first mission. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn't know of its...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 363 p. In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a manned suicide submarine--had succeeded in its first mission. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn't know of its...
Hikoki Publications, 2006. — 144 p. The I-400 'super submarine' was one of the most monstrous creations to emerge from the Second World War and in its time it was the largest submarine ever built. It was considered to have been one of Japan's most secret weapons - indeed the Allies remained unaware of its existence until it surrendered in late August 1945. At more than 400 ft...
St. Martin's Press, 1987. — 287 p. Togo Yashimoto, captain of the Japanese submarine I-357, a ruthless disciplinarian steeped in the samurai tradition, and John Barratt, captain of HMS Restless, haunted by his wife's death while a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Jail, were two very different men whose destinies were linked in the deadly game of hide and seek they were to...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1962. — 268 p. Japan's suicide torpedo pilots-underwater counterpart of the deadly and fanatic Kamikaze..In this book Yutaka Yokota who miraculously survived the war, tells how he learned to operate his suicide torpedo and describes the farewell ceremony in which a man is dedicated to death. Most important, he succeeds in conveying to readers an...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: Singapore: Hikoki Publications Limited, 2006. — 144 с. Подводная лодка I-400 была одним из самых чудовищных творений, появившихся во время Второй мировой войны, и в свое время это была самая большая подводная лодка из когда-либо построенных. При длине более 122 метров, весе 5 223 тонны в погруженном состоянии, экипаже почти в 200 человек и...
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