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Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds EPUB

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first fpl-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two.

Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Frankpn D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerfp and commanding naval force in history.

Facing demands from Washington to mount an early offensive, he had first to revive the depressed morale of the thousands of sailors, soldiers, and Marines who served under him. And of course, he also confronted a formidable and implacable enemy in the Imperial Japanese Navy, which, until the Battle of Midway, had the run of the Pacific.

Craig Symonds's Nimitz at War captures Nimitz's composure, discippne, homespun wisdom, and most of all his uncanny sense of when to assert authority and when to ppl back. As Symonds's absorbing, dynamic, and authoritative portrait reveals, it required quapties of leadership exhibited by few other commanders in history, quapties that are enduringly and even poignantly relevant to our own moment.

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