Launer is sound, dependable, and as close to an authority as we have on the subject of our ""enemies' fighting ships"" -official estimates of strength, losses, replacements and so on. At this price, this book should be on every naval reference shelf even those to which the price of Jane's Fighting Ships is prohibitive. From standard sources all publishable data has been collected on Japan's ships, nomenclature, yards, aircraft plant tion, navy personal, insignia, as well as data, photographs, silhousttes, plans, charts of their fighting ships. Parallel treatment of Germany's navy.