A tribute to the men who achieved this engineering marvel and a testament to the excesses of bureaucratic militarism, "Battleship Musashi" recounts the human dr

The Yamato Battleship was the lead ship of the Yamato class of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato P

Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to t

"This volume features selected photos of the Japanese battleships, Yamato and Musashi, from the archives of the Kure Maritime Museum. It includes photos taken b

Yoshida Mitsuru''s first-hand account of the Second World War battle leading to the destruction of Japan''s battleship Yamato is a classic of war literature'