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Symonds, Craig L.
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Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 -- Military leadership.
United States. Pacific Command -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean.
Leadership.
Admirals -- United States -- Biography.
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Symonds, Craig L.
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966 -- Military leadership.
United States. Pacific Command -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean.
Leadership.
Admirals -- United States -- Biography.
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Nimitz at war :
command
leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay / Craig L. Symonds.
by
Symonds, Craig L.
Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call #:
940.545973 S988n
Subjects
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
--
Military leadership.
United
States
.
Pacific
Command
--
Biography
.
United
States
. Navy
--
Biography
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Pacific
Ocean.
Leadership.
Admirals
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9780190062361 (hc)
Alternate title:
Command
leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Description:
xvi, 474 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume
command
of the
Pacific
Fleet. Nimitz was not the most senior candidate available, and some, including his new boss, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, considered him a 'desk admiral,' more suited to running a bureaucracy than a theater of war. Yet FDR's selection proved nothing less than inspired. From the precarious early months of the war after December 7th, 1941 to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay nearly four years later, Nimitz transformed the devastated and dispirited
Pacific
fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history. From the start, the pressures on Nimitz were crushing. 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. He had to corral independent-minded subordinates
--
including Admiral Bill 'Bull' Halsey and General Holland 'Howlin' Mad' Smith
--
and keep them focused on shared objectives. He had to maintain a sometimes-fraught relationship with his Army counterpart Douglas MacArthur, and cope with his superiors, including the formidably prickly King and the inscrutable FDR. He had to navigate the expectations of a nation impatient for revenge and eventual victory. 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' Nimitz at War reveals how the quiet man from the Hill Country of Texas eventually surmounted all of these challenges. Using Nimitz's headquarters
--
the eye of the hurricane
--
as his vantage point, Symonds covers all the major campaigns in the
Pacific
from Guadalcanal to Okinawa. He captures Nimitz's composure, discipline, homespun wisdom, and most of all his uncanny sense of when to assert authority and when to pull back. In retrospect it is difficult to imagine anyone else accomplishing what Nimitz did. As Symonds' absorbing, dynamic, and authoritative portrait reveals, it required qualities of leadership exhibited by few other commanders in history, qualities that are enduringly and even poignantly relevant to our own moment."--Publisher.
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