When Yamamoto ran Wild – The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
When Yamamoto ran Wild – The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
Sunbury Press, June 2024
ISBN/ASIN: 9798888191507
When Yamamoto Ran Wild
The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By Mark Carlson
In November 1940, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, told Prime Minister Prince Konoye “If I am forced to wage war with the United States regardless of the consequences, I will run wild for six months, but I have no confidence in the years after that.”
His words were uncannily prophetic. Exactly six months after the start of his brilliant and crushing campaign that began with Pearl Harbor and then captured Guam, wake Island, Singapore, Malaya, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies, the epic Battle of Midway ended his wild run.
The six months from December 7, 1941 to June 7, 1942 encompassed the most critical and pivotal phase of the Second World War in the Pacific. During that time the United States, Great Britain, Australia and Netherlands were virtually overwhelmed by the relentless and carefully executed Japanese tsunami across the western Pacific.
By January 1942 Japan had the most powerful, most advanced and best trained military in the world, while the Allies were hard-pressed to scraped together a force to challenge the Empire’s military might. But, against all odds and reason, that is exactly what they did.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the newly appointed commander of the U. S. Pacific Fleet, began to wage a careful, cunning and bold campaign to stop the Japanese once an for all. The odds were highly stacked against him, but he would prove to be not only Yamamoto’s equal in skill, but his superior in military brilliance.
When Yamamoto Ran Wild is the full and detailed account of how the United States, battered and beaten after Pearl Harbor rose like a Phoenix from the ashes and stopped Yamamoto’s wild run.
Author and historian Mark Carlson, calling upon his decades of study of military history relates a revealing and compelling narrative account of the six months that finally broke the back of Japan’s conquest of the Pacific.
When Yamamoto Ran Wild is the book that at last proves that Pearl Harbor was the \worst mistake the Japanese empire ever made.
