When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

The Yamato and its lesser-known sister-ship Musashi were designed in the 1930s to take on American battleships in a climactic duel for control of the Pacific. Neither vessel ever saw a US Navy battleship, but by the time they were committed in the final battles of 1944–45, both would face overwhelming American naval air power. By 1944, the US Navy had combined its rugged Avenger torpedo-bombers with an improved air-launched weapon to create a formidable ship-killing capability. Augmenting the Avengers was the US Navy's newest dive-bomber, the Helldiver, which also proved rugged in service and carried a fairly large bomb load. When the Japanese committed both of their super battleships in the defense of the Philippines in October 1944, the power of American carrier aircraft proved sufficient to sink Musashi. Only months later, in April 1945, American aircraft repeated their performance against Yamato.

USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in one of the most famous classes of battleships ever commissioned into the US Navy. Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the Iowa first fired her guns in anger in the Marshall Islands campaign, and sunk her first enemy ship, the Katori. The Iowa went on to serve across a number of pivotal Pacific War campaigns, including at the battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf. It ended the war spending several months bombarding the Japanese Home Islands before the surrender in August 1945.After taking part in the Korea War, the Iowa was decommissioned in 1958, before being briefly reactivated in the 1980s as part of President Reagan's 600-Ship Navy Plan. After being decommissioned a second and final time in 1990, the Iowa is now a museum ship in Los Angeles. This new addition to the Anatomy of the Ship series is illustrated with contemporary photographs, scaled plans of the ship and superb 3D illustrations which bring this historic battleship to life.

伊丽莎白女王级战列舰为一战期间英国最先进的一级战列舰，也是英国皇家海军首批装备15英寸舰炮的战列舰。