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BB KONGO CLASS & CV UNRYU CLASS
188 pages + fold-out (1 x B2), 127 photos, 232 drawings.
Price: $69 USD / $75 CAD
Akagi. Part 2
Soft cover book, English and Polish text, 120 pages, 3 pages
in color, 181 b/w photos, two A1 fold outs with color 3D drawings.
Price: $39 USD / $43 CAD
 JAPANESE
HYBRID WARSHIPS Ise-Hyuga, Mogami, I 400-I 13
Using authoritative Japanese technical standard publications
and the official Japanese war history and unpublished reports of the U.S. Naval
Technical Mission to Japan, the author describes three particular warship types
characterized by one common feature: The addition and primary use of aircraft
while maintaining the original armament either unchanged or in a reduced form.
The amalgamation of the features of fundamentally different warship types such
as the gun carrier and the aircraft carrier in one vessel seemed promising, and
the hybrid ship became an important theme in the 1920s. But none of the 'Big
Five' built hybrids before the outbreak of World War II. However, the prominent
role of the aircraft was proven from the first day of the Pacific War and after
the defeat at Midway in June 1942 the Imperial Japanese Navy investigated the
conversion of the existing battleships and heavy cruisers to aircraft carriers
or hybrids.
Following this investigation, the author outlines the
realized conversions of BBs Ise and Hyûga to BB-XCV and CA Mogami to a CA-XCV,
and then deals with the aircraft-carrying submarines of I 400 class, which
combined two superlatives: the biggest SS of the world and the only one 'armed'
with three seaplane bombers for attacking major American coastal cities and the
locks of the Panama Canal. Due to the inability to produce the required number
of such submarines, the design of the I 13 class was changed to carry two
seaplane bombers and to operate in combination with ships of the I 400 class.
The planned and executed operations of these ships are
described with reference to the official Japanese war history and supplemented
by numerous maps and track charts selected by the author from Japanese sources.
Sander Kingsepp, perhaps best known for his translations on the Nihon Kaigun
website, has supplied summarized translations on Mogami's reconnaissance
aircraft and the loss of I 13, which are both added as enclosures.
APPROXIMATELY: 232 pages + fold-outs (4 x B2), 37 pages of
text, 96 pages in color, 180 profiles 2D and 3D, 176 b/w photos, 32 color
photos, 141 drawings, 8 maps.
Price: $70 USD / $85 CAD
From Trojca/Model Hobby The ESSEX CLASS AND
SCHARNHORST. MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.
 Nagato
Mutsu Vol. 2 (AJPress #52)
English/Polish text
Price: $32 USD / $38 CAD/INT
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Warships at War, Volume 2, featuring the Yamoto. Price: $60 USD /CAD/INT.
  
  
  
  
 Japanese
Warships at War (Waldemar Trojca/Hans Langerer). Hard cover, large format (9x12),
216 pages, 300 b/w photos (many full or half page) and 16 pages of color artwork illustrating carriers, battleships, cruisers, a
destroyer and the I-400. No text other than brief photo captions. This is the
first of a planned five volume set. Price: $60 USD /CAD/INT.
Temporarily out of stock. More to arrive late fall 2009.
 Kriegsmarine
at War (Waldemar Trojca). Hard cover, large format
(9"x12"), with 208 pages, approximately 300 black and white photos, 14 color
photos and 8 pages of color ship profiles. The book includes photos of
battleships, pocket battleships, cruisers, destroyers, destroyers, torpedo boats
and submarines. There is no text other than basic photo captions.
$55 USD / $60 CAD
  German
Naval Artillery Volume 2. (AJ Press). Soft cover, large format, English/Polish
text, 112 pages, 158 black and white photographs, 24 pages of color drawings and
several cutaway line drawings. Very nice reference covering the 15cm mounts
of various classes of warship including the Emden type cruiser, and Deutschland
class battleships, Bismarck and destroyers. Lots of really clear photos of the ships and the gun mounts plus loads of
technical details on the guns and ammunition Price $25 USD/$30 CDN/INT.
German Naval Artillery Volume 1
(AJ Press). Soft cover, large format, English/Polish
text, 112 pages, 141 black and white photographs, 72 color 3-D drawings and
several cutaway line drawings. Interesting review of German heavy naval guns as
fitted to such ships as the Deutschland, Bismarck, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst etc.
Lots of really clear photos of the ships and the gun mounts plus loads of
technical details on the guns and ammunition Price $25 USD/$30 CDN/INT.
Light Cruiser Leipzig (AJ Press).
Soft cover, large format, Polish
text with English photo captions, 72 pages, 114 black and white photographs, 2
pages of color ship profiles and a set of pull-out 1:400 scale plans. Terrific
photos and very nice plans. Price $25 USD/$30 CDN/INT.
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