BYWATER, Hector Charles

(1884-1940)

   US writer of works on the nature and history of sea-power, and of a future- WAR novel on the same theme, The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-1933 (1925), which quite remarkably underestimates the Japanese. In his Bywater: The Man who Invented the Pacific War (1990), William H. Honan suggests that Admiral Yamamoto read The Great Pacific War in the 1920s and used it as a blueprint for his eventual attack on Pearl Harbor.

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