Almost seventy-five years after the Japanese sank six US battleships at Pearl Harbor, Historian Robert Lundgren provides a startling reassessment of the role of battleships in World War II.
Far from being made obsolete in a single day, Lundgren upends the conventional wisdom by showing that the battle line was an essential tool for the exercise of seapower all the way to V-J Day.
Indeed, he argues, the Japanese Navy's undue reliance on aircraft carriers alone was a key factor in its loss of.
Nimble Books Battleship victory: principles of sea power in the war in the pacific, hardcover/robert lundgren
