Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to t

"This volume features selected photos of the Japanese battleships, Yamato and Musashi, from the archives of the Kure Maritime Museum. It includes photos taken b

A tribute to the men who achieved this engineering marvel and a testament to the excesses of bureaucratic militarism, "Battleship Musashi" recounts the human dr

The battleship Yamato was a tremendous achievement for the Imperial Japanese Navy. With the greatest displacement, biggest guns and heaviest armour of all time,

Yoshida Mitsuru''s first-hand account of the Second World War battle leading to the destruction of Japan''s battleship Yamato is a classic of war literature'