New book on IJN WW2 cruisers…

January 2nd, 2009

From Sat Dec 06 17:17:10 1997
>Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 19:15:58 -0500
>From: Brooks A Rowlett
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>To: mahan@microworks.net
>CC: elmer@wpi.edu
>Subject: Re: New book on IJN WW2 cruisers…
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>
>Frank Dunn wrote:
> >
> > Also new from Chatham Publishing :
> >
> > >From :
> >
> > http://whiteensignmodels.simplenet.com/books2.htm
> >
> > Japanese Cruisers of The Pacific War Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II. This
> > monumental work
> > is based on extensive and (many) unpublished sources. 880pp,150 Integrated
> > photographs,300 line drawings, copied from original Japanese
> > blueprints,h/b.£60.00
>
>Naval Institute Press in the US:
>
>
>
> > Frank Dunn, London, UK.
> > http://www.brazen.demon.co.uk/
>
>If anyone doesn’t know about this, LaCroix wrote many years of articles
>in THE BELGIAN SHIPLOVER (I’m still interested in buying old issues of
>this mag, btw)* on the IJN, and then published a multiple part series in
>WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL in late 70’s thru mid 80’s on IJN cruisers, which
>became, with major expansions, this book. You will learn more about
>IJN design practices in one article on this than in most any other
>western book.
>
>* I am particularly interested in finishing the day-to-day chronology of
>naval operations in the Russo-Japanese war that appear over several
>issues).
>
>-Brooks

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