Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) Type:Sofcover Shaffer strikes a balance between

Shaffer strikes a balance between the combatants while remembering the struggles of enslaved persons

summoned General Grant to protect the Capitol

The town of Gettysburg and surrounding farms witnessed a battle and horrific aftermath in 1863

Massive amphibious operations on the Virginia Peninsula

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (Craig L. Symonds - WH) Type:Sofcover Shaffer strikes a balance betweenby 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