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Historical person
Chūichi Nagumo is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, crime, espionage and covert power, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
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 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;…
All books in this series
