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This book's editor has included a postscript that summarises each contributor's life after the war.
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I made a note to remark in this review that the author, Yoshida Mitsuru could have written books for a living. In it, the author recounts his experience serving as a junior radar officer at the time of her last battle off of Kyushu. One chapter, regarding the sinking of the Battleship Yamato, is truly excellent. This book then is an anthology of some of the very best essays on the IJN during WWII. Most of the accounts are from very senior IJN officers and their education and insight is evident.Īs I discovered after finishing the book, many of these accounts have been published elsewhere and can be considered, if not the pinnacle, then some of the very best naval writing about the exploits of the IJN in WWII. In reading every single account I was constantly struck with how erudite and thoughtful each author was, and it did make me wonder how much we have either lost or gained in translation. Each chapter opens with the briefest of summaries of the historical situation as it was at the time before the vast majority of the chapter is dedicated to an eye-witness account of those events. However, it quickly became apparent that the Author/Editor David Evans has deftly married the recollections and considered opinions of former WWII Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) officers into a very readable and well-structured narrative of the IJN's engagements throughout the war.Įach of the book's seventeen chapters cover a major battle or is an analysis of Japanese naval doctrine. I had some trepidation in starting to read this book as it is a fairly weighty tome at just under 600 pages.