Battleships Yamato and Musashi av Janusz Skulski

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<p>Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the <i>Yamato</i> proved to be a formidable opponent to the US Pacific Fleet in the Second World War. The book contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of <i>Yamato</i> and her sister ship <i>Musashi</i>, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 1,020 perspective line artworks, 350 colour 3D views, and 30 photographs. The wreck of <i>Musashi</i> has been recently discovered to great excitement in Japan, renewing interest in these iconic warships.<br><br>Janusz Skulski''s anatomies of three renowned ships of the 20th century Japanese navy are among the most comprehensive of the Anatomy series with hundreds of meticulously researched drawings of the ships. Since their first publication he has continued to research the ships