Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in the Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy ...
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The Battleships Yamato and Musashi
Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum;
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
Volume I: Capital Ships 1895-1939
In the inter-war years Richard Perkins, a keen amateur photographer and avid collector, amassed one of the world’s largest personal collections of warship negatives. This he eventually bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum, where it still forms the core of the historic photos naval section. While he was actively acquiring photos, Perkins found that many were neither identified nor accurately ...
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Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers
Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships
Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships
"Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum, The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships"
Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship photo album series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Burning of Washington
The British Invasion of 1814
With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public buildings, setting off an inferno that illuminated the countryside ...
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume III: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part I"
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artifact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, for whom it is a ...
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume IV: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part 2"
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. In collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, the publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making the ...
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British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume V: Destroyers, Torpedo Boats and Coastal Forces, 1876-1939"
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships.
The publication of this monumental work in a superbly produced multi-volume edition that captures all the qualities of the original. Every page is reproduced at full size, making the extensive handwritten annotation readable, while the ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Burning of Washington
The British Invasion of 1814
With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public buildings, setting off an inferno that illuminated the countryside ...
Available Formats: Softcover
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identific
"Volume VI: Submarines, Gunboats, Sloops and Minesweepers, 1860-1939"
The sixth volume of the series covers all submarines up to 1939, the diverse types of gunboat (from masted gun vessels through coastal “flat-irons” to river patrol craft), and sloops of various descriptions—small masted cruisers, convoy and minesweeping sloops of the Great War era, and interwar escort vessels.
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Volume I: Capital Ships 1895–1939
ISBN: 978-1-84832-382-7 | $85.00 | ...
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