Japanese High Seas Fleet (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Weapons Book, No.33)

160 pp. Japan's battle fleet was the youngest in the world--but, in a sense, by far the oldest, too. Imbued with the fierce, centuries-old samurai tradition, the Imperial Japanese Navy was equipped with magnificent warships and manned by superbly trained crews. But it could not match the immense material resources of its principal foe: the war machine and navy of the United States.