Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

by Craig L Symonds and Craig L. Symonds

Book Overview

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two--"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."

Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz was not the most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190062363
• ISBN13: 9780190062361
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.6"