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Title: How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals by Edwin P. Hoyt ISBN: 1-58574-148-5 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How They Won the War in the Pacific, Hoyt
Comment: Outstanding history of the war in the Pacific. Great profiles of Nimitz, Fletcher, Halsey, Spruance, and others. Easy to read. I hated to finish it!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not very informative
Comment: The U.S. command in the pacific theater is one of the most underreported of the war. And yet this command was the most innovative of any command of any power in WWII. They invented a totally new type of warfare and quickly learned to execute it exceptionally well.
And they also made do with so little, winning Midway and holding Guadacanal by the skin of their teeth. The ability to know exactly where to fight and how is an incredible story.
Does this book get that? Yes, some of it. But for a book that revolves around this, it gets suprisingly little. The U.S. submarine fleet sunk half the Japanese ships and basically isolated Japan from it's raw material sourced. Yet it's not mentioned in this book.
Add to that no real mention of how the Navy learned to develop amphibious warfare and to combine that with strong carrier support. And what you are left with is another book that just goes through the main battles of the pacific war, with a bit more emphasis on the admirals in charge.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nimitz and his admirals
Comment: Excellent detailed review of WW II in the Pacific with all the personalities and "backstabbing" of the commanders that went on.Much of the details were not released to the media at the time. Many of the leaders mentioned went on to become the Chief of Naval Operations later on. I had the privelege of calling on Nimitz and his wife in 1963 and he related the story of his ship grounding detailled in the book. This book was "released" in 1970. Why is it so late (2000) in being published? Would loved to have read it before meeting Nimitz and his son.Could have used more maps of some of the places being discussed.
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Title: Bull Halsey by E. B. Potter ISBN: 1591146917 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story by Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya, Thomas B. Buell, Clarke H. Kawakami, Roger Pineau, Raymond A. Spruance ISBN: 1557504288 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (Classics of Naval Literature) by Thomas B. Buell ISBN: 0870215620 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Nimitz by Elmer Belmont Potter ISBN: 0870214926 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Miracle at Midway by Gordon William Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon ISBN: 0140068147 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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