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Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945

is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw

Allied intelligence documents and post-war Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the

armament of the ground forces. It takes advantage not only of post-war Japanese research, but also the extensive technical

intelligence efforts of the Allies near the end of the war, and the post-war investigations that have heretofore generally been

ignored to provide a complete examination of wartime Japanese armament. The book is divided into twenty-three sections

covering all categories including not only the standard arms, such as machine guns and coast artillery, but also more esoteric

items such as bridging, chemical weapons and assault equipment. Each section provides both production and technical data, as

well as a discussion of the unique characteristics of each weapon and its place in the force structure, accompanied by over 300

photographs and numerous data tables.

Leland Ness has been conducting and supervising defense analysis and writing military history for over forty years. He served

as director of special projects at DMS/Jane’s, published a newsletter on ground ordnance for the defense industry, and has

been an editor at Jane’s for the last ten years (for

Jane’s Ammunition Handbook

and

Jane’s Infantry Weapons).

He is also the

co-author of the classic

Red Army Handbook,

and the author of the HarperCollins

WWII Tanks and Combat Vehicles.

He has

been particularly interested in Asian military history since graduating with a degree in Oriental Studies and Language. During

twenty-eight years in the Army Reserve, he served with Headquarters, US Army Intelligence Agency on active duty during

Desert Storm.

RIKUGUN

GUIDE TO JAPANESE GROUND FORCES 1937–1945

Volume 2 Weapons of the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces

Leland Ness

Helion & Company