Marder, Arthur J.

OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES: THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY.

Strategic illusions, 1936-1941. Pp. xxxii+534(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text figures, 3 maps (2 on one folding sheet), index; demy 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; bookseller's stamp on upper free endpaper; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981. First edition. *Originally intended to be the first of two volumes on the Royal Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy from 1936 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945, but Arthur Marder died shortly before this volume was published. The second volume was completed by Mark Jacobsen and John Horsfield in 1990. Item #158849

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