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Yamato: Imperial Japan's Super Battleship, Design, Weapons, Leyte Gulf, Operation Ten-Go & Legacy
Paperback
Series: Warships Field Guide, Book 2
General Antiques & CollectiblesJapanese History
ISBN13: 9781914591617
Publisher: Oscar Publications
Published: Jun 19 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For readers who are fascinated by the final age of battleships, Yamato offers one of the most powerful stories in naval history: a ship of immense scale, extraordinary engineering, and deep strategic meaning, built for a decisive battle that the modern Pacific War would transform forever.
YAMATO: Imperial Japan's Super Battleship, Design, Weapons, Leyte Gulf, Operation Ten-Go & Legacy is a compact premium field guide to the most famous battleship of Imperial Japan. Written for naval-history readers, battleship enthusiasts, collectors, and scale modelers, this volume follows Yamato from her secret design origins to her final sortie off Okinawa, explaining not only what made her remarkable, but why each part of her story matters.
Inside, you will explore:
- Yamato's origins in Imperial Japan's decisive battle doctrine and the naval treaty era
- Her construction at Kure, massive hull form, armor scheme, 18.1-inch guns, and fire-control systems
- Her wartime role as Combined Fleet flagship, her presence at Leyte Gulf, and the dramatic Battle off Samar
- Operation Ten-Go, the sinking of Yamato, her wreck, legacy, and key modeling recognition features
This guide gives the reader a clear, structured experience: the design logic behind the ship, the weapons and protection that defined her, the operational limits that shaped her career, and the legacy that made her an enduring symbol of the end of the battleship age.
Concise, visually aware, and historically grounded, YAMATOis designed to help you understand the ship as more than a legend: a real warship, a strategic idea, an engineering achievement, and one of the most compelling naval subjects of the Second World War.
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