Year: 1973 Language: English Author: Richard Humble Genre: History of the Navy Publisher: Macmillan Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 164 Description: As short as this book is (only 160 pages) "Japanese High Seas Fleet" by Richard Humble covers a great deal of ground. Starting with The Meiji Reforms of 1867-1868, the book presents the social context of the nation of Japan as the country moved toward the crucial Russo-Japanese War of 1904. The famous naval battle off the Korean peninsula near Tsushima in that war of 1904 made a national hero of Admiral Heihachiro Togo and created a strong impulse in the Japanese public for a strong navy. This pursuit of a strong navy caused Japan to actively engage in an naval arms race with Britain and the United States in the 1920s. The navy that was created and enlarged during this time came to have strong doubts about the any war with the Western Powers. This put them at odds with the Japanese Army and General Hideki Tojo, who would become Japan's famous wartime Prime Minister in October of 1941. This Japanese Army/Navy conflict is portrayed accurately in the 1970 movie "Tora Tora Tora." However, it was the navy that was tasked with the job of winning the war that the navy felt could not be won. Thus, the navy--particularly Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto came up with the extremely risky strategy of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor as the only way to win the war. After the battle of Midway in June of 1942, Humble's book tapers off quite quickly. This was for good reason. By 1943, all the great Japanese aircraft carriers were gone and in another year much of the rest of the Japanese surface fleet was gone.
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Japanese High Seas Fleet
Language: English
Author: Richard Humble
Genre: History of the Navy
Publisher: Macmillan
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 164
Description: As short as this book is (only 160 pages) "Japanese High Seas Fleet" by Richard Humble covers a great deal of ground. Starting with The Meiji Reforms of 1867-1868, the book presents the social context of the nation of Japan as the country moved toward the crucial Russo-Japanese War of 1904. The famous naval battle off the Korean peninsula near Tsushima in that war of 1904 made a national hero of Admiral Heihachiro Togo and created a strong impulse in the Japanese public for a strong navy. This pursuit of a strong navy caused Japan to actively engage in an naval arms race with Britain and the United States in the 1920s. The navy that was created and enlarged during this time came to have strong doubts about the any war with the Western Powers. This put them at odds with the Japanese Army and General Hideki Tojo, who would become Japan's famous wartime Prime Minister in October of 1941. This Japanese Army/Navy conflict is portrayed accurately in the 1970 movie "Tora Tora Tora." However, it was the navy that was tasked with the job of winning the war that the navy felt could not be won. Thus, the navy--particularly Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto came up with the extremely risky strategy of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor as the only way to win the war. After the battle of Midway in June of 1942, Humble's book tapers off quite quickly. This was for good reason. By 1943, all the great Japanese aircraft carriers were gone and in another year much of the rest of the Japanese surface fleet was gone.
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