During World War II, navies developed camouflage for their ships.
Since sadly most pictures of World.
The highly readable captions combine construction, refit and service histories With sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes.
With its unparalled depth of technical detail and breadth of coverage, it is a must-have for students of naval history, the war in the Pacific, wargaming, and ship and aircraft modelling.
Since sadly most pictures of World War II are in black and white, this book is a delight for anyone who wants to visualize the war as it actually occurred, in color.
The captions combine construction, refit and service histories With sharp personal assessments of ship performance, accompanied by plank-level illustrations of the color schemes applied to ships and planes.
The durable case laminate jacket and 70-pound premium paper assure a long-lasting and pleasant physical experience.
This expansive and reader-friendly layout allows for numerous full-page spotlight views of important and interesting ships and planes, for a total of 952 images and captions.
At 288 11 x 8.5 Pages With half-inch margins and 9-point type, this book offers almost double the content area of the previous volumes in the series, which were 196 10 x 8 Pages each, With a somewhat challenging 7-point font.
The timespan covered actually goes beyond 1932-45 and includes developmental milestones for each ship and class, from the 1914 construction of the battlecruiser KONGO to the 1946-47 repatriation service of the surviving Vessels and their subsequent transfer to victorious navies.
The book covers every ship type from battleship to the smallest auxiliary, including the riverine craft that fought in China, all the ships in the separate fleet operated by the Imperial Japanese Army, and Three Special Bonus Pages describing camouflage schemes for selected hard-to-research ships from other navies.
Many schemes included in this volume are difficult to find without intensive research, making this a unique and valuable resource.
Maritime artist Malcolm Wright, author of popular books on British naval camouflage schemes in World War II, now turns his attention to the ships and aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army from 1932 to 1945.
Applying it to both vertical and horizontal surfaces, they reduced visibility and confused the identities of their ships to the enemy.
During World War II, navies developed camouflage for their ships
