Sunk: The Story Of The Japanese Submarine Fleet 1941-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj. 2026100009590
Few accounts of the Pacific War cut as close to the bone as Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet 1941–1945 — a rare, first-person chronicle of naval warfare written not by the victor, but by one of Japan's most decorated submarine commanders. Mochitsura Hashimoto, who commanded the I-58 submarine responsible for sinking the USS Indianapolis in one of the war's most devastating naval disasters, presents an unflinching insider account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine campaign, from the audacious early strikes of 1941 through to the catastrophic collapse of 1945. Translated by Commander E. H. M. Colegrove, R.N. (Retd.), this work stands as an extraordinary document of 20th-century military history, offering Western readers a perspective almost entirely absent from the dominant Allied narrative of the war. Hashimoto writes with the restrained precision of a career naval officer, cataloguing tactical decisions, strategic failures, and the quiet courage of submarine crews operating under near-impossible conditions. Rich with operational detail and suffused with a profound sense of national tragedy, Sunk raises unsettling questions about loyalty, command, and the machinery of modern warfare that linger long after the final page.
Author: Mochitsura Hashimoto
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Cassell and Company Ltd
Genre: WW2
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj. 2026100009590
Few accounts of the Pacific War cut as close to the bone as Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet 1941–1945 — a rare, first-person chronicle of naval warfare written not by the victor, but by one of Japan's most decorated submarine commanders. Mochitsura Hashimoto, who commanded the I-58 submarine responsible for sinking the USS Indianapolis in one of the war's most devastating naval disasters, presents an unflinching insider account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine campaign, from the audacious early strikes of 1941 through to the catastrophic collapse of 1945. Translated by Commander E. H. M. Colegrove, R.N. (Retd.), this work stands as an extraordinary document of 20th-century military history, offering Western readers a perspective almost entirely absent from the dominant Allied narrative of the war. Hashimoto writes with the restrained precision of a career naval officer, cataloguing tactical decisions, strategic failures, and the quiet courage of submarine crews operating under near-impossible conditions. Rich with operational detail and suffused with a profound sense of national tragedy, Sunk raises unsettling questions about loyalty, command, and the machinery of modern warfare that linger long after the final page.