Admiral Nimitz
eBook - ePub

Admiral Nimitz

The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater

  1. 257 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Admiral Nimitz

The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater

About this book

"A superbly written biography" of the legendary Admiral who commanded the Allied Pacific Fleet during WWII (Carlo D'Este, author of Eisenhower and Patton).
Chester Nimitz was an admiral's Admiral, considered by many to be the greatest naval leader of the last century. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Nimitz assembled the forces, selected the leaders, and—as commander of all US and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific Ocean—led the charge one island at a time, one battle at a time, toward victory.
A brilliant strategist, Nimitz achieved remarkable victories against fantastic odds, outpacing more flamboyant luminaries like General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral "Bull" Halsey. And he was there to accept, on behalf of the United States, the surrender of the Japanese aboard the battleship USS Missouri in August 1945.
In "meticulously researched, immensely informative, and laudably balanced" biography, Brayton Harris uses long-overlooked files and recently declassified documents to bring to life one of America's greatest wartime heroes (Alan Axelrod, author of A Savage Empire) .

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Texas
  8. 2 Naval Academy
  9. 3 A Philippine Adventure
  10. 4 Change of Course
  11. 5 The Great War
  12. 6 Change and Challenge
  13. 7 The Professor
  14. 8 The Augusta
  15. 9 In Training
  16. 10 Preparing for War
  17. 11 War
  18. 12 Opening Gambit
  19. 13 The Code-Breakers
  20. 14 Fallout
  21. 15 The Nimitz Style
  22. 16 On the Offensive
  23. 17 Midcourse Correction
  24. 18 The Marianas
  25. 19 A Different Sort of War
  26. 20 The “Return”
  27. 21 Iwo Jima
  28. 22 Okinawa
  29. 23 Surrender
  30. 24 Homecoming
  31. 25 The Rocky Road to CNO
  32. 26 Skirmishes
  33. 27 The Last Battle
  34. 28 Twilight
  35. Epilogue
  36. Notes
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index
  39. Copyright