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.
Indeed, he argues, the Japanese Navy\'s undue reliance on aircraft carriers alone was a key factor in its loss of.
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.
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