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Historical person
Chester W. Nimitz is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, crime, espionage and covert power, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s The Final Storm, Chester Nimitz directs the naval campaign while General Mitsuru Ushijima prepares a defence based on fortified positions, attrition and refusal to surrender. In Jeff Shaara’s The Eagle’s Claw, Admiral Chūichi Nagumo leads the Japanese carrier force, while Chester Nimitz commits his limited ships on the basis of intelligence produced by Joseph Rochefort and the codebreakers at Station HYPO.
Series
The World War II series traces the principal American campaigns from North Africa in 1942 to the end of the Pacific War in 1945. The Rising Tide covers North Africa and Sicily; The Steel Wave reconstructs D-Day and Normandy; No Less Than Victory follows the Battle of the…
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The Pacific War Series is a two-book sequence covering the transformation of the Pacific conflict from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway. To Wake the Giant follows diplomacy, Japanese planning, American intelligence failures and the sailors caught in the assault of 7 December 1941;…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
