Thomas Alexander Hughes is Associate Professor of History at The Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
During World War II, Americans showered adulation on Douglas
MacArthur, George S. Patton—and upon William F. Halsey Jr.
Afterward, biographers flocked to chronicle the generals’ lives;
less so the admiral’s. Now this stellar work, which seamlessly
blends deep research and shrewd analysis, emerges as the most
complete and sophisticated Halsey portrait.
*World War II*
In this remarkable work, Tom Hughes masterfully portrays the
maturation of the U.S. Navy through the life and times of Admiral
Bill Halsey, from the sailing of the Great White Fleet to the
Japanese surrender aboard his flagship, the USS Missouri. A
must-read for anyone interested in World War II naval strategy and
the colossal challenges encountered in conducting joint maritime
warfare in the Pacific as experienced by one of the most audacious
and controversial commanders in naval history.
*Phil Haun, Yale University*
Hughes’s biography of Halsey replaces the generalities about ‘the
greatest generation’ with a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched,
and very persuasive account of Halsey’s command in the Pacific War
at a time when the success or failure of the whole effort against
Japan hung in the balance. His is an essential and very readable
revisionist portrait of one of America’s most famous naval
leaders.
*Ronald H. Spector, author of Eagle Against the Sun: The
American War with Japan*
A superb biography of a famed but elusive subject whose
accomplishments and failings, virtues and flaws, have never been so
persuasively captured. This compelling portrait of Halsey will
stand for a generation or more as the preeminent life story of one
of America’s greatest seamen.
*Richard B. Frank, author of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account
of the Landmark Battle*
Smartly written…[It] deserves to supplant E. B. Potter’s
21-year-old Bull Halsey as the standard life of its subject…Hughes
is an entertaining writer and an incisive observer.
*Wall Street Journal*
A complex, thought-provoking, and profoundly illuminating
story.
*Weekly Standard*
This new biography presents a fascinating reappraisal of one of the
most important, yet subsequently neglected, military commanders of
World War II.
*HistoryNet*
Hughes uses this expertly researched and well-written biography to
look underneath the layers of popular culture and try to understand
the man behind some of the US Navy's biggest WW II successes as
well as its biggest controversies.
*Choice*
[An] impeccably researched, objective, and eminently readable
biography of the fighting admiral…[Hughes] has succeeded,
magnificently, in this well-written, fascinating biography.
*Military History*
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