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Historical person
Isoroku Yamamoto is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s To Wake the Giant, Isoroku Yamamoto develops a carrier strike against Pearl Harbor despite his belief that a long war with the United States would be disastrous. In Jeff Shaara’s The Eagle’s Claw, Six months after Pearl Harbor, Isoroku Yamamoto plans an operation intended to seize Midway and destroy the American aircraft carriers that escaped the December attack.
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
