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early settler families forged roots
McMurry’s study is not a traditional military biography but a lively and opinionated conversation about major campaigns and battles
This is a story teeming with drama and intrigue about an event that no one could fathom occurring today
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
A young George Washington traversed the expanse
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) Type:Hardcover early settler families forged rootsby Craig L. Symonds 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