Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) Type:Hardcover early settler families forged roots

early settler families forged roots

This is a story teeming with drama and intrigue about an event that no one could fathom occurring today

and the vicissitudes of its afterlife in the history of the nation up to recent times

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

by Mary Louise Clifford and J

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) Type:Hardcover early settler families forged rootsby Craig L. Symonds 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 senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U. S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a "desk admiral," more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the