Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century of the man who guided America to victory in the Pacific in World War Two.

The most cataclysmic and con…

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