Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers: The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album

摘要

This book is remarkable in several respects. First, it is remarkable that we have it at all. Next, the surviving photographs within are remarkable in that they come from an age when photography in Japan was prohibited near any military installation, shipbuilding facility, or naval port. Last, the photographs in this large and heavy landscape book span full-page, sometimes over two. So, what do we have here?