Description: Now in paperback for the first time, this classic history of WWII was a recipient of the Society for Military History's 1999 Distinguished Book Award. It documents the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire. Unrivaled in its breadth and attention to detail, this important history explores the foreign and indigenous influences on the Japanese navy's thinking about naval warfare.
Brief description: David C. Evans was a professor of history at the University of Richmond and edited The Japanese Navy in World War II. He died in 1999. Mark R. Peattie is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books including, Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941.
Review Quotes: "Superbly researched and lucidly written." -- Journal of World History