Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, vol. 1: Strategic illusions, 1936-1941
"draws on a vast array of manuscript sources in Britain, Japan, and the United States, including papers, interviews, and correspondence that Marder conducted with key naval personages during a lifetime of research.  The writing is superb."--The Pacific Review"As one would expect from its pedigree, it is a work of considerable scholarship and covers the larger issues of the naval war with Japan in great detail."--Warship