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Honan, William H., - BYWATER -  The Man Who Invented The Pacific War.

Title: BYWATER - The Man Who Invented The Pacific War.
Description: Macdonald, London, 1990, 1st edn., xiv, 337pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps in text, grey cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the journalist and naval historian Hector Bywater, British born his family had emigrated to USA in 1901 and he worked as a journalist for the New York Herald where one of his first features was an article on the Russo-Japanese war. He was fluent in German and later working as a foreign correspondent in Europe he became a naval spy for the British and after WW1 he published a book in which he predicted the naval conflict between Japan and the USA, many apects of which were adopted by Yamamoto and eventually put into effect in the attack on Pearl Harbor, a little rubbed and buymped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., relined at spine ends and corners, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: biography pacific war

Price: GBP 14.50 = appr. US$ 20.71 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40891

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