Wiper. This heavily illustrated book examines the Imperial Japanese Navy's long serving Nagato class battleships - the Nagato and Mutsu - from their 1917 keel-laying through their modifications and refits, operational service, and destruction. Includes several visual perspectives that reveal each vessel's appearance from the underwater hull to the superstructure and the masts. 72 pages, 70+ B&W photographs, 11"x 8¼", softcover.