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How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals Paperback – August, 2000

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"Full of meat for Pacific battle and campaign buffs and essential for research libraries."-- Choice

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This meticulous study is a concentrated look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his subordinate leaders - fighting men under stress - and the relationship of fighting admirals to their top leaders and each other. 'The Patton of the Pacific,' Bull Halsey could win a battle; ascetic and cultivated Raymond Spruance could win a campaign; but Chester W. Nimitz, the quiet but dauntless battler form the banks of the Pedernales River, could win a war. And the way he did win that war in the Pacific is the center of this excellent and absorbing biography of naval operations and of men in command relationships. How They Won The War In The Pacific covers, at length or briefly, many leaders, including the top fighting ones afloat and ashore, and shows Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as history will record him - as the wise, calm tower of strength in adversity and success, the principal architect of victory in the Pacific during World War II. (6 X 9, 592 pages, b&w photos, maps)

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Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (August 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585741485
ISBN-13: 978-1585741489
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
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A Split Decision

ByArthur Van Pelton December 29, 2012

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Hoyt is hardly a newbie to WWII history, but considering the large number of works he has produced, one wonders how deeply he could have researched his subjects. This book is a study in command. Nimitz's command, to be specific, a subject I have some knowledge of via a fair number of Pacific war histories. The book has several glaring , inexplicable errors, which makes me wonder how much of what was new to me I can believe. One huge error is Hoyt's failure to
accurately describe Browning's launching of Enterprise's initial air attack, a horrible fiasco that led directly to Spruance's order to send the bombing aircraft without waiting for their escorts. That and the intervention of Spruance in a Browning/aviator dispute, allowing the aviators to carry 500 pound bombs so that they might get back to the carriers soured there relationship. They barely acknowledged each other's existence afterwards. Spruance did send a complimentary letter to Nimitz praising Browning's performance, but that was a complete contradiction of his true belief. Hoyt simply reports the letter's contents, which completely misleads the reader. It's hard to fathom why Hoyt made such a blunder. it's not as though the Spruance/Browning bad relationship was a secret. Nor was Browning's sorry performance at Midway. Hoyt does, however, clear up the "The world wonders" sentence contained in Nimitz's query to Halsey as to his position, something no other history I've read has managed to do.
Along the way, Of necessity, the reader will learn pretty much the way things progressed in the Pacific war, especially the various military options that were considered along the way. It took me a lot of starts to finish this book. I got tired of reading about the seemingly endless disputes,personality conflicts and headaches occasioned by Admiral King's seemingly endless attempts to stick his nose into Nimitz's business. Nimitz was a rock as a commander. Only Spruance seems to have been his equal. The country was certainly lucky to have had Nimitz in command in the Pacific. That comes through loud and clear. The book is certainly worth reading for any student of the Pacific war. There are a fair number of typos in the Kindle edition
that should have been caught.

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Great display of leadership.

ByRonald E. Bankson May 2, 2016

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This book is well worth reading. The author is very knowledgeable on the subject. The focus of this book is how Nimitz was able to melt very different leaders to pull together toward a common goal-defeating the Japanese-it is clear that often Nimitz had to use diplomacy to accomplish. this.