WARSHIPS IN ACTION No 4026 JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISERS

When Japan entered World War II in 1941, the eighteen heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were a combined force of large and powerful ships designed for attack rather than defence. Long, low to the water, heavy and fast, they looked like no other nation's cruisers with their flush decks and curved hulls topped off with large, pagoda-like tower bridges. With more than ninety black and white photographs, six colour profiles, line drawings and colour covers, and with eight extra pages.