The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal

The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of BengalAuthor(s): Wim Remmelink\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Leiden University Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Leiden University Press\nISBN-13: 9789087282806, 978-9087282806\nSynopsis\n\""Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volumeSenshi [url] History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The present volume,The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal, volume 26 of the series, describes the Japanese Navys role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago at that time the largest transoceanic landing operation in the military history of the world. It includes, among others, the first complete Japanese analysis of ""