The Battleship Fuso: Fuso (Anatomy of the Ship) (Hardcover)

by Janusz Skulski (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557500460
• ISBN-13: 978-1557500465
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,391,507 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FABULOUS FUSO, May 14, 2000

By	John Waddell (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

JANUZ SKULSKIS' LATEST VOLUME IN THE ANATOMY OF THE SHIP SERIES IS PERHAPS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ONE-BOOK DATA SOURCE ON A SINGLE JAPANESE WARSHIP EVER PUBLISHED. THE BATTLESHIP FUSO IS NOT ONLY COVERED FROM STEM-TO-STERN, BUT IS MINUETLY DISSECTED! EVERY DETAIL OF THIS REMARKABLE SHIP HAS BEEN EXAMINED AND RECORDED IN (IN MANY CASES) NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS AND, OF COURSE, AN EXPERTLY EXECUTED SET OF SCALE DRAWINGS THAT HAVE BEEN A BENCHMARK OF MR. SKULSKIS' PAST WORK. THIS BOOK IS A TREASURE FOR HISTORIANS AND SCALE MODELERS ALIKE, AND IS DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC IN THE TECHNICAL HISTORY OF NAVAL WARFARE.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best IJN references in English, August 27, 2002

By	wonderrat "wonderrat" (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

With the publication of his third book in the Anatomy of the Ship series, Janusz Skulski has produced one of the best single references on any Japanese naval vessel. Most of the best sources for the IJN are unaccessible to the average reader due to language difficulites and Skulski does an admirable job in acccessing Japanese sources. This is an excellect modeler's reference and the drawings are finely detailed.

I would give this book five stars if only there were not so many errors in captioning (for examples, please refer to the previous review). There are some mismatched captions, errors in scale, and a badly malformed drawing of the Fuso's mainmast on page 128, but don't let these problems put you off in buying the book. Now I wish Janusz Skulski can do more IJN books! Let's see, some books on the Japanese carriers at Pearl Harbor would do for a start. How about a book on the seaplane cruiser Mogami? Or a book on the destroyer Yukikaze (took part in almost all of the major actions of the war and survived until 1970 in the service of the Taiwanese Navy).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference, December 24, 1999

By	wonderrat "wonderrat" (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

With the publication of this third book in the Anatomy of the Ship series, Janusz Skulski has produced one of the best single references on any Japanese naval vessel. Most of the best sources for the IJN are unaccessible to the average reader due to language difficulites and Skulski does an admirable job in acccessing Japanese sources. This is an excellect modeler's reference and the drawings are finely detailed; I would give this book five stars if only there were not so many errors in captioning (for examples, please refer to the previous review). There are some mismatched captions, errors in scale, and a badly malformed drawing of the Fuso's mainmast on page 128, but don't let these problems put you off in buying the book. Now I wish Janusz Skulski can do more IJN books! Let's see, some books on the Japanese carriers at Pearl Harbor would do for a start. How about a book on the seaplane cruiser Mogami? Or a book on the destroyer Yukikaze (took part in almost all of the major actions of the war and survived until 1970 in the service of the Taiwanese Navy).