A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and ...

Lavishly illustrated, this book studies the role of airpower in the New Guinea battles of 1942-43...

Pearl Harbor

The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of th...

The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on H...

The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War II. As ...

During World War II's battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navie...

During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to...

Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in th...

Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engageme...

The ineffectiveness of conventional air attacks on US Navy surface ships, particularly heavily de...

The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized tra...