About book The Great Pacific War: A History Of The American-Japanese Campaign Of 1931-33 (1991)
I really enjoy reading 'International and World Politics' books written well before the presaged event. In this case its a hypothetical Pacific conflict between the US and Japan in 1931, written in 1925.What I find most interesting about these type of book, is that they expose the mind set of the people at the time. This is typically very different from our own on the subject, which is retrospective.In addition, the available technologies influence becomes much clearer. (Leave out the use of nuclear weapons.) Its very interesting to compare and contrast of the contribution of naval-based air power and submarine warfare in Bywater's conflict and what actually occurred. In addition, technical details such as the contribution of the early change-over from coal to oil-fired ships boilers become clear. I was also interested to see speculative use of poison gas in naval engagements.Finally, I found the prose to be charming, being similar of modern literary works from the UK.I recommend reading this as a companion to War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945, by Edward S. Miller which lists this book in its bibliography.
I had trouble figuring out how the rate this book. As a story I wasn't engrossed by the writing style, much of the action felt closer to a short newspaper summary of the combat than drawing you into the events. But it was really interesting to see, as a book published in the '20s about an early '30s pacific war fomented by Japan against the US, the author's ideas of how such a war would play out. (Quite different in specifics from the actual WWII pacific action, both because the technology had improved drastically in that decade and because the world stage was different. But seeing those differences was fascinating to me)So story is probably: Its OKGeneral interest: really liked it.
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