Morning glory: A history of the Imperial Japanese Navy Review

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(More customer reviews)The reference sources and archves were well used for the subjects he has covered here, but he makes no aattempt to reconcile himself to the realities of the case by using current reference sources such as Janes', such that when we get into areas of real revelation, he is all at sea. For instance a basic misunderstanding of the prewar terminology of Cruiser and Battleship, and even the relevance of it, leaves him with 2 battleships and a cruiser in Vladivostok harbour, rather than the 2 wonderful large pre-1905 vintage cruisers photographed and described by such as Frances Farmborough [ search Amazon!] and by the heavy hitters and such writers such as Dobson's: the Day we almost bombed Moscow. Again and again he takes you to interseting sources: look at the Tsingtau bombardments, for example, and yet the depiction leaves you fumbling, determined to get into the manuscript sources to ensure that is what really happened.
There is so much here to spark off the imagination, but for the serious researcher it is a caution: check, check,check.

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