Japanese carrier choices in an alternate Pacific War

The book's premise is a pre-war Japanese debate over capital-ship priorities, especially whether resources committed to major battleships might instead accelerate aircraft-carrier production. Range, aircraft types, and the Type 91 aerial torpedo are central to its treatment of the Pacific carrier war. The work receives a strong recommendation as a corrective to dismissive accounts of Japanese naval aviation, though its claims still warrant scrutiny. A later aside credits Japanese designers with strong ideas while identifying weak supporting infrastructure as a major limit on what the navy could sustain.